BHOPAL: A total of seven new Covid-19 cases were reported in Madhya Pradesh on Monday taking the count of cases reported so far in the state to 7,92,043.
There were a total of 94 active cases in the state as on August 16.
New cases were reported in single digits from all the districts of the state. No new case was reported from 45 districts of the state. And of the 3 districts where new cases were reported, 1 district reported only one new case.
Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal where 4 people tested positive, followed by Indore where 2 people tested positive and one new case was reported from Jabalpur district.
And on Monday a positivity rate of 0.01% was reported. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested.
On August 16, as many as 67,765 samples were tested and of it seven were found positive, thus on an average 1 person, out of every around 9,680 who were tested, was found to be positive. With 67,765 samples being examined during the day, the number of tests in MP went up to 1,55,80,678.
A total of 16 people recovered from the disease on Monday. With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 781434.
Apart from it, one death was reported in the state on Monday and taking the death toll due to covid-19 to 10515.
