Bihar Covid tally crosses 1.15 lakh with 2,451 new cases

PATNA: The state health department on Thursday reported 2,451 Covid cases in Bihar, taking the tally to 1,15,210 in the state.
The daily bulletin issued by the health department also confirmed six Covid deaths in the state, taking the toll to 574. Two deaths reported from Patna and one each from Darbhanga, Katihar, Sitamarhi and Vaishali.
As many as 88,163 patients have recovered so far, while the active cases stood at 26,473 in the state on Thursday. Altogether 3,585 people were discharged from the hospitals and isolation centres in the past 24 hours. Bihar’s recovery rate has now climbed to 76.5%.
Health minister Mangal Pandey said on Thursday that the state government is following the 4T formula- tracing, testing, tracking and treatment— to contain the virus. “Covid testing has increased by up to 153% after August 1. Now, the state is conducting over one lakh tests per day. The cumulative figure for testing has exceeded 21 lakh,” he said.
“More than 88,000 people have recovered and the recovery rate has reached 76% in the past few days. The NDA government is providing better health care to every citizen of the state during the pandemic. Operation theatre GOT-1 has been reserved for corona infected pregnant women at PMCH after the facilities have been made available at AIIMS- Patna (sic),” the minister stated in a tweet posted on Thursday.
On Thursday, Patna crossed the 18,000-mark with 367 new Covid cases, taking the total of those infected to 18,089. With 14,673 recoveries in the district so far, the active cases stood at 3,300. The death toll in the district reached 116, with two more deaths on Thursday.
Other districts, which reported a large number of Covid-19 cases are Muzaffarpur (174), Madhubani (141), Katihar (102), Saran (99), Begusarai (97), East Champaran (90), Aurangabad (78), Purnia (77) and Bhagalpur (76).
Five deaths were reported at AIIMS-Patna on Thursday, including that of a 52-year-old woman from Bhagwatnagar in Patna. Dr Sanjeev Kumar, nodal officer for Covid at AIIMS- Patna, said the other deceased were from Nalanda, Katihar, Madhubani and Dehri respectively.
At NMCH-Patna, two persons succumbed to Covid on Thursday. Dr Mukul Singh, epidemiologist-cum-nodal officer for Covid confirmed the deaths and said a 52-year-old man from Kidwaipuri and a 36-year-old man from Rohtas were among the dead.