Bengal on Monday logged 22 straight days of less than 1,000 new Covid-19 infections detected in a day since the pandemic’s second wave, with 657 new cases, 875 recoveries and 12 deaths.

The state also recorded a drop in its total number of active cases for the 36th consecutive day, by 230 to 11,566 now.

Bengal’s recovery rate is at the state’s all-time high of 98.05 per cent, fairly ahead of the national rate of 97.34.

Daily positive confirmation rate of Covid-19 cases in Bengal, nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, was 2.04 per cent on Monday.

Calcutta logged 46 new infections and two deaths.

North 24-Parganas logged 84 new cases and three deaths.

Monday was also the 19th consecutive day since the second wave when not one of Bengal’s 23 districts reported a three-digit figure of new infections detected in a day. Seventeen districts reported double-digit figures and North and South Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum and Purulia reported single-digit figures.

Fifteen Bengal districts reported zero deaths on Monday, while Jalpaiguri, Malda, Nadia, Bankura and Hooghly reported one each.

The state’s mortality rate is 1.19, while that of the nation is 1.34 per cent.

Bengal now has over 15.24 lakh Covid-19 cases since the first was reported in March last year. The total includes nearly 14.95 lakh recoveries and 18,085 deaths.