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The Times of India
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23 new Covid cases in Madhya Pradesh, positivity at 0.03%

BHOPAL: Only 23 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in the state on Sunday. With these new cases, the tally of cases reported so far in the state has increased to 7,90,175.

New cases were reported in single digits from all the 51 districts of the state.

No Covid-19 positive cases were reported from 42 districts of the state and five of those remaining nine districts where new cases were reported, only one new case was found.

Maximum cases were reported from Indore where nine people tested positive, followed by Bhopal where five new cases were reported. Jabalpur and Betul districts reported two cases each.

On Sunday, a positivity rate of 0.03% was reported in the state. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested. On July 11, as many as 74,372 samples were tested and of it, 23 were found positive. Thus on an average, one person out of every around 3,300 who were tested was found to be Covid positive.

Only two new cases of Covid-19 were cumulatively reported from districts of Ujjain and Indore divisions on Sunday except those from Indore district. The rest of 12 districts have reported zero new cases with six each from Indore and Ujjain division, showed records of daily divisional health bulletin.

In Ujjain division, except Ratlam- which reported one new case of infection, districts including Ujjain, Dewas, Shajapur, Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch and Agar didn’t open their account.

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