Bengal on Monday reported 606 new Covid-19 infections, 597 recoveries and nine deaths, as the number of active cases stayed put at 7,649. In 16 days, Bengal recorded a rise in its total of active cases on 11 days, a fall on four days and status quo on Monday. It had snapped out of a 97-day streak of fall in the active cases, or Covid patients under treatment, on September 26. Bengal now has 3.67 per cent of India’s active cases, and is sixth among states with the most number of such cases. Seventeen districts reported zero deaths.

Source: The Telegraph October 11, 2021 21:00 UTC