Bengal on Tuesday reported 788 new Covid19 infections, 759 recoveries and 12 deaths, resulting in a rise by 17 in its active cases to 7,916.

Over the past 45 days since Bengal snapped out of a 97day fall in active cases or the number of Covid patients being treated, there has been a net rise of 242 in active cases, from 7,674.

A minister said that the new infections reported on Tuesday indicated people who had been infected between October 31 (four days before Kali Puja) to November 4 (Kali Puja).

Calcutta reported 202 new infections and North 24Par¬ganas 146 on Tuesday. Both the districts reported four deaths each.

These were also only two of the state’s 23 districts with a three igit figure of new cases found. Six districts reported a single igit figure.

Calcutta, North and South 24 Prganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Nadia accounted for 602 or 76.4 per cent of the new infections detected on Tuesday.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.3 per cent currently, while that of the nation is 98.25 per cent.

Bengal’s daily positive confirmation rate, which was nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 2.12 per cent on Tuesday.

Seventeen districts reported zero deaths.

Bengal’s mortality rate is 1.2, while that of the nation is 1.34 per cent.

Bengal now has nearly 16 lakh Covid19 cases, since the first was logged in March last year. The total includes close to 15.73 lakh recoveries and 19,252 deaths.