BHOPAL: After more than 200 new infections were reported after six months on January 3, now the number of daily infections crossed 300 mark on Tuesday as 308 people were tested positive for Covid-19.
Prior to this it was on June 12, 2021 that more than 300 new cases were reported in the state in a single day when 337 people had tested positive.
The week on week progression of the Covid-19 graph in state clearly suggests that Madhya Pradesh is in the grip of the third Covid-19 wave, the growth is identical to the growth in cases during the second peak, however, the numbers are less this time, probably due to increased vaccination at this point of time.
About 1,001 new infections have been reported in past 7 days—of these 529 reported only in past two days—between December 29 and January 4. In the week before this only around 200 new infections were reported.
Same is the case with the active case count, a week ago on December 29, there were only 307 active cases in the state, it has now increased to 1029 on January 4, as per the state health bulletin released by directorate of health services.
Among the districts—Indore and Bhopal reported cases in double figures, in-fact Indore alone reported 137 new Covid-19 cases, while cases were reported in single figures from all other districts. New infections were reported from 20 districts of the state.
Maximum new cases were reported from Indore as 137 tested positive, followed by 69 new cases reported from Bhopal, 22 new cases from Gwalior, 21 new cases from Jabalpur, 12 new cases from Shahdol, 9 from Ujjain, 6 in Shivpuri district, 5 each in Sagar and Datia districts, 4 new cases each from Khargone and Khandwa districts, 3 new cases from Vidisha district and 2 new cases from each of Chhattarpur and Rajgarh districts. Besides these, one new case each was reported from Alirajpur, Barwani, Dewas, Ratlam and Singrauli districts.
Positivity rate of 0.53% was reported in the state. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out of every 100 samples tested.
A total of 58044 samples were tested in the state. On the brighter side, 51 people recovered, taking the count of those who have recovered so far from Covid-19 to 7,83,206.
One death was reported in the state on Tuesday due to Covid-19, thus the overall death toll reached 10,534.
