Summary:
The tally of COVID patients reached 2,61,013 in Madhya Pradesh with 332 fresh COVID-19 cases surfacing in the state on Friday.
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The tally of COVID patients reached 2,61,013 in Madhya Pradesh with 332 fresh COVID-19 cases surfacing in the state on Friday.
Apart from the fresh cases, three deaths were also reported in the state on Friday.
With this, the Covid death toll in MP reached 3,862.
On Friday, new cases were reported from 40 of the 52 districts of the state.
Districts where no new cases were reported on Friday include Shahdol, Dewas, Raisen, Katni, Chhatarpur, Seoni, Guna, Bhind, Umaria, Tikamgarh, Niwari, and Agar Malwa.
Fresh cases were reported in double figures from 5 districts.
The highest numbers of cases were reported from Indore where 96 people tested positive, followed by Bhopal where 58 tested positive and 18 patients were found in each of Jabalpur and Gwalior districts.
On the brighter side, 246 people recovered from the disease and were discharged from hospitals.
With these new people recovering from Covid-19, the total recoveries in the state reached 2,54,633.
A total of 16,070 samples were tested on Friday, of which 332 tested positive.
Thus, the positivity rate—which is the number of positive cases out of every 100 samples tested—for Friday stood at 2.0 per cent.
On February 26, there were 2,518 active cases in the state.
However, though cases are increasing in the state again, still there are at least two districts — Bhind and Niwari — where there are zero active cases of Covid-19.
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