3 more Covid-19 deaths in Bihar, tally 8,050

PATNA: Covid-19 tally in Bihar crossed the 8,000 mark on Tuesday with 157 new cases taking the total number of patients to 8,050 in the state. Three coronavirus-related deaths, including in Patna district, were also reported in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 55.
As many as 6,027 patients have recovered so far, while 1,969 active cases remain in the state. Altogether 260 people have been discharged from hospitals and isolation centres in the past 24 hours. Bihar’s recovery rate is now 74.86 per cent.
Health secretary Lokesh Kumar on Tuesday confirmed two deaths, one each from Saran and Samastipur. “A 45-year-old man from Saran district died after testing positive for Covid-19 virus. The man was suffering from cancer. The second death was reported in Samastipur district where a 45-year-old woman who recently returned from Mumbai, died,” Kumar said in his daily Covid-19 briefing on Tuesday evening.
The third Covid death was reported from Muradpur in the state capital. Patna DM Kumar Ravi confirmed the death of a 49-year-old man, who tested positive on Monday evening. Doctors at Patna Medical College and Hospital said the man died on Sunday evening. His sample was collected after his death on June 21, which came positive for Covid-19 on Monday.
However, the state health department bulletin released on Tuesday only mentioned two deaths.
Meanwhile, Saran civil surgeon Madhaveshwar Jha told this newspaper that the person who died on Tuesday due to Covid-19 had recently returned from Dariyapur block and diagnosed with gallbladder carcinoma and was admitted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)- Patna for treatment for the past 22 days. “He had no travel history,” he said.
AIIMS-Patna director P K Singh said the man from Saran died on Sunday due to co-morbidity. “His samples of swab were collected last week and he tested positive for Covid,” Singh said.
As per information shared by the health department, cases were reported from 25 districts with maximum from Patna where 35 people tested positive. The cases were reported from Masaurhi (12), Kamla Nehru Nagar (9), Naubatpur (2), Bikram (2), Barh (2), Kankerbagh, Phulwari and Muradpur.
Altogether 1,69,401 testing of samples have been done in the state so far and 5,925 samples were tested in the past 24 hours in which 166 samples tested positive for Covid-19. The health secretary said in his daily briefing that 5,098 migrants, who returned from other states, have tested positive since May 3.