BHOPAL: On Wednesday, it was after nearly a month that more than 25 new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state as 28 people tested positive for the virus.
Wednesday was the ninth consecutive day when more than 10 new cases were reported in the state. In the past eight days between July 20 and August 4, a total of 243 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the state.
In the past eight days, maximum 30 new cases have been reported from Sagar district followed by Indore where 27 have tested positive in the same duration and then Damoh where 19 had tested positive.
With these 28 new cases on Wednesday count of positive cases reached 7,91,908. There were total of 155 active cases in the state as on August 4.
Barring Damoh district, new cases were reported in single digits from all the districts of the state. And no new case was reported from 44 districts of the state. And of the 6 districts where new cases were reported, 2 districts reported only one new case.
Maximum cases were reported from Damoh district where 15 new cases were reported, followed by 7 new cases in Sagar district and two new cases were reported from each of Bhopal and Jabalpur and 1 new case was reported from each of Indore and Rajgarh districts. The number of active cases in Ujjain district remained at three. One new case of the infection was, however, reported from Sanwer area of Indore district in the last 24 hours.
A positivity rate of 0.03% was reported. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested.
On August 4, 71103 samples were tested and of it 28 were found positive, thus on an average 1 person, out of every around 2,500 who were tested, was found to be positive.
A total of 12 people recovered from the disease on Wednesday. With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 7,81,240.
No death was reported in the state on Wednesday and the death toll due to Covid-19 remained at 10,513.
