Sunday was the 49th consecutive day of a drop active cases in Bengal in the third wave, resulting in animprovement by 99 per cent in the total since January 17...
This is for 18 consecutive days that the state recorded three-digit figures of fresh infections after cases had started climbing up on December 29 last year...
As a result, state's recovery rate fell overnight to 98.25 per cent (from 98.32 per cent on Wednesday), lower than the national rate of 98.38 per cent...