One more doctor, 21 others die of corona in Bihar

PATNA: One doctor and 21 other coronavirus patients died in Bihar on Sunday. Altogether 20 doctors have died of Covid-19 infection in state so far. The 40-year-old Dr Anand Shankar, an orthopaedic surgeon posted at Chhapra Sadar Hospital. He died at AIIMS-Patna.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Bihar climbed up to 1,04,093, with 2,187 fresh cases reported in past 24 hours. The number of new cases was the lowest since July 30 when 2,082 cases were reported with only 20,000 people tested that day. Altogether, 67,212 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
Among the deaths reported on Sunday, five were from Patna, which has recorded 537 Covid casualties so far. Among the other deceased, four were from Gaya, two each from Rohtas and East Champaran and one each from Bhagalpur, Bhojpur, Buxar, Darbhanga, Gopalganj, Munger, Nawada, Siwan and West Champaran.
Bihar has become the eighth state in the country to cross the 1 lakh-mark of Covid patients. Maharashtra was the first to cross the mark, followed by Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
With the recovery rate at 69.71%, the state had 30,990 active cases. Altogether 72,566 people have recovered, including 3,891 discharged from the health facilities after their subsequent test results found negative.
Principal secretary (health) Pratyaya Amrit said the positivity rate in Bihar declined to around 3% with the ramping up testing. Previous day, 1,13,498 samples were tested in Bihar and 3,536 of them were found infected.
Patna reported 253 positive cases in a day, taking the total infected cases to 16,621. There were 3,722 active cases as 12,798 people recovered from the infection.
Other districts with the maximum number of Covid cases after Patna were Bhagalpur (177), Madhubani (127), Aurangabad (113), Muzaffarpur and Saharsa (97 each), East Champaran (96) and Nalanda (90).
Six Covid infected people died at AIIMS-Patna on Sunday. Its nodal officer for Covid, Dr Sanjeev Kumar, said four of them were from Bahadurpur, Anisabad, Sultanganj and Rajeev Nagar in Patna. A 51-year-old man from Khagaria also died at AIIMS- Patna.
The Bihar chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) condoled the death of Dr Shankar. IMA (Bihar) secretary Dr Sunil Kumar said Dr Shankar was the second youngest among the doctors who died of Covid in Bihar. A 35-year-old general physician from Muzaffarpur had died about a week ago.