BHOPAL: Eight new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, taking the tally of positive cases reported so far in the state to 7,92,614, as per the state health bulletin.
Though the number of new cases has dropped significantly, a high number of active cases remains as cause of concern. The active cases which were down at 83 on September 1 are now high at 107 as per the data released on Saturday.
One death was reported in the state on Saturday and the death toll due to Covid-19 reached 10523.
No new case was reported from 48 districts of the state. Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal where four patients were found, followed by two new cases in Jabalpur district and one new case each from Indore and Shivpuri districts.
Positivity rate — the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested — remained at 0.01%.
On Saturday, as many as 60,369 samples were tested and of it eight were found positive. Thus on an average, one person out of every 7,500 who were tested, was found to be positive.
A total of 11 people recovered from the disease on October 11. With these people recovering, the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease has reached 7,81,984.
