BHOPAL: On Monday, 6 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Madhya Pradesh, taking state’s coronavirus tally to 7,91,756.
It is heartening to see that numbers of active cases now remain below 200; there were 140 active Covid patients in the state on July 26.
No new case was reported from 48 districts of the state; of the 4 districts where new cases were reported, 2 reported only one new case.
Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal and Indore where 2 people tested positive in each of these districts and one patient was tested positive in each of Dindori and Jabalpur districts.
On Monday, positivity rate of 0.008% was reported in MP; it is the number of people testing positive out of every 100 samples tested. On July 26, 71613 samples were tested, out of which only 6 were found positive, thus on an average, 1 person out of every 11900 tested, was found to be positive.
The number of people recovering from the disease also outnumbered the number of people who tested positive as 14 people recovered from the disease on Monday. The number of recoveries has now reached 781104.
No deaths were reported in the state on Monday and Covid death toll remained at 10512.