Bengal on Wednesday logged 283 Covid-19 recoveries, 179 new cases and five deaths, but none from the city.

The numbers helped to lower the state’s total active cases for the 107th day straight since Vijaya Dashami. Bengal, with 37,190 active cases on Dashami (October 26), now has 4,387.

The state now has 3.14 per cent of the national total of active cases, less than half its share a couple of months ago.

“We are looking to get our share of active cases to less than 2 per cent and a recovery rate of over 98 over the next few weeks,” said a minister.

Bengal’s recovery rate, rising for 110 consecutive days, is 97.45 per cent now, ahead of the national rate of 97.24. The state’s positive confirmation rate — the percentage of infections found in relation to the number of tests done — is 6.96 per cent now, a steady fall for 82 days.

On Wednesday, the state reported 21,608 tests, taking the total past 82.09 lakh, at 91,221 tests per million people.

Of the toll of 10,220, 8,584 (84 per cent) were attributed to comorbidities.

Bengal’s mortality rate stayed at 1.78 and the national rate at 1.43 per cent.

“Unlike all other key indicators, our mortality rate has remained more or less stagnant, despite major improvement in our daily toll, because the number of new infections detected daily has dropped sharply,” explained the minister.