BHOPAL: In a touch of hope, Madhya Pradesh's daily Covid count dropped for the second consecutive day though tests remained over 80,000. The worrying note, however, is that 14 deaths have been reported in these two days.
MP's Covid count on Monday stood at 10,585 at a positivity rate of 13%. This was a 5% drop from Sunday's tally of 11,253 and a positivity rate of 13.4%. Daily tests stood at 83,365 on Sunday and 80,967 on Monday.
This is the first time in a month that cases have dipped on consecutive days. On Saturday, 11,274 had been detected. Prior to this, it was only on December 27, 2021, that the Covid count had dropped over the previous day - from 41 to 309. Since December 27, however, cases kept rising every day till January 23.
However, six deaths were reported in the state - four in Indore, and one each in Jabalpur and Bhopal - taking the state's toll to 10,576.
As many 23 fatalities have been reported in MP in the last four days.
In the 24 days of the new year, over 1.1 lakh new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the state. And positivity has rocketed from 0.20% on January 1 to 13% on January 24.
8 fatalities in a day in MP, 11k+ new Covid cases again
More than 11,000 new Covid-19 infections were reported in Madhya Pradesh for the second consecutive day on Sunday as 11,253 people tested positive for the infection.
Eight deaths were reported in the state, 2 from each of Indore and Bhopal and one each from Gwalior, Jabalpur, Khargone and Ujjain districts.
So far in the 23 days of this year, a total of 99,650 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the state. Positivity rate has increased many-fold from 0.20% on January 1 to 13.4% on January 23.
On Sunday, there were 67,136 active cases in the state, as per the state health bulletin released by the directorate of health services.
The phenomenal growth of infection in the state could be well understood from the fact that on January 6, daily infections crossed 1,000 mark, on January 9, it crossed 2,000 mark and on January 11 it crossed 3,000 mark and then on January 13 it crossed 4,000 mark, on January 15 it crossed 5000 mark and on January 16, it crossed 6,000 mark. On January 18, it crossed the 7,000 mark and it crossed 9,000 mark on January 20 and on January 22, it crossed the 11,000 mark.
New infections were reported from all the districts of the state and in all these districts cases were reported in double figures. Indore alone reported 3372 new covid-19 cases. Top five districts where maximum cases were reported include Indore where 3372 new cases were reported, followed by Bhopal where 1910 new cases were reported, then Jabalpur where 870 new cases were reported, 488 new cases were reported in Gwalior and 306 new cases were reported in Vidisha district.
Positivity rate of 13.4 percent was reported in the state. Positivity rate is the number of people testing positive out of every 100 samples tested.
A total of 83,365 samples were tested in the state. On the brighter side, 5,497 people recovered, taking the count of those who have recovered so far from covid-19 to 816453.
