352 new Covid cases take Bihar’s tally to 14,330

PATNA: The state on Wednesday reported seven deaths, taking the toll to 125. However, the health department has officially reported only 111 deaths so far.
The number of Covid-19 cases have reached 14,330 with 352 cases registered on Wednesday, including that of the hospital manager of one of the dedicated Covid-19 hospitals. With 10,251 recoveries, active cases now stand at 3,966.
Three deaths were reported at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, two at AIIMS-Patna and two more at Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JLNMCH), Bhagalpur.
The three NMCH deaths include two from Begusarai and one from Siwan. “One of the Begusarai deceased was a 19 year old boy and had asthma. The second Begusarai deceased was a 58-year-old, who died of cardiac arrest. The third was a 63-year-old woman from Kasera in Siwan. She also died of cardiac arrest,” said NMCH epidemologist-cum-nodal officer (reporting cell) Dr Mukul Kumar Singh.
He further said that 490 people were discharged from the hospital till Friday evening and 260 people are admitted of whom three are in ICU.
AIIMS-Patna nodal in-charge for Covid-19, Dr Sanjeev Kumar confirmed two Covid deaths at his hospital. He said one 58-year-old man from Mughalpura in Patna City and a 55-year-old man from West Champaran were the two who died on Friday.
Two deaths were also reported from the JLNMCH. “One was a 62-year-old male and had comorbidity, another was a 30-year-old female who had no medical history,” said Dr HS Sharma, Covid-19 nodal in-charge of the hospital.
Sources said attendants of one of the deceased at JLNMCH forcefully took the dead body without following protocol. “They physically abused hospital staff after the death of a Covid-19 positive person and then took the body,” said a staff member of the hospital.
According to the state health department, cases on Friday were reported from 27 districts, with maximum cases from Bhagalpur where 84 had tested positive. ther districts with large number of cases include Patna (73), Muzaffarpur (34), East Champaran (21), Supaul (19), Madhubani (15), Nalanda (13), West Champaran (12) and Khagaria (10).
Health department secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh stated that 459 people had recovered in the past 24 hours, taking the recovery rate to 71.54%. In the same time period, 352 new cases were registered and 7595 samples were tested.