JAIPUR: For the first time since March 30, the state did not report a single Covid death in the last 24 hours.
The casualty count on Thursday stood at 8,905.
The state had reported zero Covid death on March 30 and since then 6,092 people have died of the virus.
On the penultimate day of March, the cumulative death toll was 2,813.
Despite the second Covid wave slowing down in June, 520 people have lost their lives accounting for 6% of the overall fatalities reported in the state since first case was reported in March 2020.
The highest number of deaths took place on May 11 when 169 lives were lost.
A senior health department said, “Along with number of daily Covid infections which have been going down for the past few days, deaths have also reduced significantly.” On Thursday, 147 persons tested positive for the virus, taking the overall tally to 9,51,695.
With 306 persons having recovered from Covid, the overall number of recovered cases rose to 9,40,771.
The recovered rate has also increased to 98.8% while the active caseload has reduced to 2,019, which is just 0.2% of the overall cases reported in the state.
Six districts in the state still have more than 100 active cases.
These districts are Jaipur (412), Alwar (385), Jodhpur (147), Hanumangarh (109) ,Sikar (104) and Bikaner (104).
Rest of the 27 districts have less than 100 activecases in each of the district.
Districts which reported new cases are Alwar (58), Jaipur (14), Jodhpur (12), Sikar (7), Nagaur(7), Pali (6), Bikaner (5), Sriganganagar (4), Tonk (4), Udaipur (4),Hanumangarh (4), Churu (3), Jhalawar (2), Chittorgarh (2), Ajmer (2), Kota (2),Pratapgarh (2), Barmer (2), Banswara (1), Bharatpur (1), Dholpur (1), Dungarpur(1), Jaisalmer (1), Jhunjhunu (1) and Sirohi (1).