BHOPAL: A total of 16 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in the state as per the state health bulletin released on Saturday. Of these, 10 cases were reported from Indore alone. With these new cases tally of positive cases reported so far in the state reached 7,92,487.
There were a total of 118 active cases in the state as on September 25. This has also increased as there were only 83 active cases on September 1. Barring Indore, new cases were reported in single digits from other districts. No new case was reported from 47 districts.
Maximum cases were reported from Indore district where 10 new patients were found while three new cases were reported from Bhopal and one new case was reported each from of Anuppur, Barwani and Gwalior districts. Positivity rate of 0.02% was reported.
As many as 67,595 samples were tested and of it 16 were found positive. Thus on an average, one person out of every 4,000 who were tested, was found to be positive.
A total of 19 people also recovered from the disease on Saturday taking the count of recoveries so far to 7,81,852.
No death was reported in the state on Saturday and the death toll due to Covid-19 remained 10,518.
