BHOPAL: Only three new Covid-19 cases were reported in the state on Monday taking the count of cases reported so far in the state to 7,92,104.
There were a total of 84 active cases in the state as on August 23.
No new case was reported from 49 districts of the state. In the three districts where new cases were reported, only one case was reported in each of these. One new case was reported from each of Bhopal, Indore and Singrauli districts on Monday.
On Monday positivity rate of 0.01% was reported. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested.
As many as 53,589 samples were tested and of it three were found positive, thus on an average one person, out of every around 17,000 who were tested, was found to be positive.
A total of five people recovered from the disease on Monday. With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 781504.
No death was reported in the state on Monday and the death toll due to Covid-19 remained at 10,516.