<span style="color: #222222;">More than two lakh 49 thousand patients have recovered from COVID infection so far in Madhya Pradesh with 296 patients  recovering yesterday.  <br />'' <br />''In Madhya Pradesh, 168 new positive cases were reported yesterday. COVID positivity rate stands at 1.1 per cent. Sixteen districts recorded no positive cases yesterday. With three patients succumbing to the infection, the death toll rose to three thousand 815.  Meanwhile, Dr Santosh Shukla, State Immunisation Officer informed that a Mop-up Session is being conducted today and tomorrow for health care workers who missed the vaccination in the first round.</span>