States »NortPosted at: Jun 4 2021 9:03PM

COVID-19: MP’s body count rises to 8,257

Bhopal, June 4 (UNI) The fatality figure owing to the ‘millennium scourge’ rose to 8,257 on Friday in Madhya Pradesh where 50 fresh demises were reported even as the infected tally touched 7,83,743 with 798 more sufferers being detected during analysis of 79,917 specimens.
A Health Services Directorate bulletin issued this evening pegged the active cases at 12,889 – of which 7, 883 are in residential quarantine – and the infection rate has dropped to 0.9 per cent. In excess of 7.6 lakh individuals have recuperated. Indore continued to have the dubious distinction of spawning the highest 246 new cases, Bhopal 176, Jabalpur 64 and Sagar 18.

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