BHOPAL: After more than a fortnight more than 30 new Covid-19 cases were reported from the state on Friday. Of these 36, 32 were reported from Indore alone.
With these new cases tally of positive cases reported so far in the state reached 7,92,471.
There were 120 active cases in the state as on September 24. This has also increased from 83 active cases on September 1. Barring Indore, new cases were reported in single digits from all the districts of the state. And no new case was reported from 49 districts of the state.
Maximum cases were reported from Indore district as 32 new patients were found. And then 3 new cases were reported from Bhopal and one new case from Vidisha.
And on Friday positivity rate of 0.05% was reported. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested. On September 24, 66,511 samples were tested and of it 36 were found positive, thus on an average 1 person, out of every 1,800 who were tested, was found to be positive.
A total of 8 people recovered from the disease on Friday. With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 7,81,833.
Apart from it, one death was reported in the state on Friday and the death toll due to Covid-19 reached 10,518.