Bihar records 1,797 fresh +ve cases, 4 more deaths

PATNA: The state health department on Sunday recorded 1,797 fresh Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the tally to 1,47,658. Four more Covid patients died, taking the toll to 754.
One person each from Begusarai, Bhagalpur, Bhojpur and Madhubani died, the health department said. With 1,924 more recoveries, the state had 16,604 active cases as 1,30,300 patients had been discharged after recovering from the infection till Sunday. Bihar now has 88.24% recovery rate, which is almost 11% higher than the country’s 77.3%.
The state health department claimed to have conducted 1,51,033 tests for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, which was likely to be the highest in the country.
State health minister Mangal Pandey claimed that Bihar has the highest number of tests per day. “The state also has the highest recovery rate and the lowest 0.5% death rate in the country. In the past 24 hours, 1924 patients recovered, taking the cumulative tally of cured patients to 1,30,300 with 88.24% recovery rate,” he tweeted.
Patna reported 214 fresh positive cases, taking the district tally so far to 22,533. There were 2,141 active cases in the district which has reported 20,215 Covid patients so far. The district has 89.7% recovery rate now.
Patna DM Kumar Ravi said the bed occupancy at isolation centres and hospitals in the district has reduced significantly. “Timely contact tracing of infected people, high number of tests and proper monitoring of containment zones led to the decline in number of Covid patients in Patna,” he said.
Other districts with large number of fresh Covid- 19 cases included Araria (151), Bhagalpur (89), Purnea (86), Siwan and Supaul (76 each), Saran (69) and Madhubani (68).
No new Covid-19 deaths were reported from the two dedicated hospitals at Patna — AIIMS and NMCH — on Sunday.