BHOPAL: On Monday, 10 new Covid cases were reported in Madhya Pradesh. It is the second consecutive day when 10 or more new cases were reported in the state. With these new cases, the tally of cases reported in the state so far has reached 7,92,165.
It is fourth time in past 11 days that more than 10 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state in a day. It was on August 19, August 27 and August 29 when more than 10 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state.
As on Monday, there are 75 active cases in the state.
No new case was reported from 46 districts of the state while only one case was reported from three of the six districts where new cases were reported.
Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal district where three new cases were found, followed by two each in Jabalpur and Indore districts. Witnessing a slight rise in daily Covid-19 count, four districts under Indore and Ujjain divisions on Monday reported new cases in single digit. Indore district reported two new cases, while one person was tested positive each in Dhar, Ratlam and Neemuch district.
On Monday, positivity rate — the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested — in MP was reported at 0.01%.
As many as 68,267 samples were tested and of it 10 were found positive. Thus on an average, one person out of every around 6,800 who were tested, was found to be positive.
A total of 15 people recovered from the disease on Monday. With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease has reached 7,81,574.
No death was reported in the state on Monday and the death toll due to Covid-19 remained at 10,516.
