JAIPUR: The state on Wednesday reported one Covid death, the lowest in the past 85 days.
After reporting zero Covid deaths on March 30, the state had never reported less than two Covid deaths.
Dungarpur reported its130th Covid death, while rest of the 32 districts did not report even one single fatality.
The current fatality count stands at 8,905.
Though Covid cases have been going down for the past few weeks, the mortality rate is still quite high.
As many as 520 people have died in June while 11,590 tested positive for the virus.
The mortality rate this month in June is as high as 4.5%.
The overall mortality rate (since the first death reported in March 2020) is 0.9%.
On June 1, the state had reported 65 Covid deaths and since then the daily death’s graph kept going down.
A health department official said daily casualties and cases have gone down.
In the last 24 hours, 155 people tested positive which took the overall tally to 9,51,548.
With 364 more persons recovering from the virus, active cases have reduced to 2,178.
Also, the cumulative figure of recovered cases rose to 9,40,465.
The recovery rate has jumped to 98.8%.
Districts which reported new cases are Alwar (31), Jaipur (28), Jodhpur (20), Sirohi (11), Sriganganagar(9), Nagaur (9), Bikaner (8), Sikar (8), Hanumangarh (6), Karauli (3), Jhalawar(3), Udaipur (3), Jhunjhunu (3), Chittorgarh (2), Kota (2), Ajmer (2), Banswara(1), Jaisalmer (1), Baran (1), Pali (1), Pratapgrah (1), Rajsamand (1) and Bharatpur(1).