Bengal on Saturday logged 700 new Covid-19 infections, 707 recoveries and eight deaths.

With 76 straight days of a fall in its active Covid-19 cases, the total fell by 15 to 8,679.

Bengal now has 2.16 per cent of India’s active cases, and is seventh among states with the highest number.

Calcutta logged 129 new infections and North 24-Parganas 105, the only two of the state’s 23 districts with a three-digit figure of new infections in a day. Five districts reported a single-digit figure.

Seventeen Bengal districts reported zero deaths. Calcutta and North 24-Parganas reported one each.

The state’s recovery rate is 98.25 per cent, its highest this pandemic, better than the nation’s 97.4. Its daily positive confirmation rate, nearly 33 per cent at the peak of the second wave, is 1.59 per cent.

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

The state currently has over 15.51 lakh Covid-19 cases, since the first was reported in March last year. The total includes more than 15.24 lakh recoveries and 18,491 deaths.