BHOPAL: A total of 6 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported in the state as per the state health bulletin released on Friday. With these new cases, tally of positive cases reported so far in the state reached 7,92,606.
There was a total of 111 active cases in the state as on October 8. This has also increased from 83 on September 1. Of the total new cases reported on Friday, 5 were from Bhopal alone. New cases were reported in single digits from all the districts of the state. And no new case was reported from 50 districts of the state.
Maximum cases were reported from Bhopal as 5 patients were found and another new case was reported from Rajgarh district. And on Friday positivity rate of 0.01% was reported. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out every 100 samples tested.
On October 8, 55,412 samples were tested and of it 6 were found positive, thus on an average 1 person, out of every around 9,000 who were tested, was found to be positive. A total of 9 people recovered from the disease on October 8.
With these people recovering the number of people who have recovered so far from the disease reached 7,81,973. No deaths were reported in the state on Friday and the Covid death toll remained at 10,522.
