BHOPAL: Eighteen new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday taking the tally of cases reported so far to 7,91,658.
No new case was reported from 41 district of the state. Of the 11 districts where new cases were reported, six reported only one new case.
Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal where four people tested positive while two cases each were reported from Indore, Chhatarpur, Gwalior and Umaria districts. In Balaghat, Jabalpur, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Seoni and Shahdol districts, only one person was tested positive in each.
On Sunday, the positivity rate increased marginally to 0.02% from the 0.01% reported the previous day. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested.
On July 18, as many as 78,563 samples were tested and of it, 18 were found positive. Thus on an average, one person out of every 4,300 people who were tested were found to be positive.
The number of people recovering from the disease also outnumbered the number of people tested positive as 20 people recovered from the disease on Sunday. Thus with these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 7,80,927.
As on July 18, there are a total of 219 active Covid-19 patients in the state.
Apart from it, no deaths were reported in the state on Sunday. Thus, the death toll due to Covid-19 remained 10,512.
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