PATNA: In what could be a major relief, the state recorded less than 250 Covid cases for the first time in over four months on Sunday. Altogether 247 people have tested positive for the virus in Bihar in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s tally to 2,26,916.
The state health department has confirmed five
fresh Covid causalities in the last 24 hours. With this, he state’s Covid toll has increased to 1,184. Officially, four deaths were reported in Patna, taking the district’s toll to 298. The victims included a 77-year old woman from Kankarbagh and three men from Indirapuri, Patliputra and Kurji localities of Patna. One death, on the other hand, was registered in Araria.
At 614, the number of recovered cases in the last 24 hours surpassed the fresh cases. At least 5,868 people are still battling the virus across the state. As per government data, as many as 2,19,864 people have recovered from the virus so far, taking the state’s Covid recovery rate to 96.89%. In fact, the state’s recovery rate is 3.8% higher than the national average of 93.09%, it said.
As many as 96,699 new samples were tested at different health facilities and laboratories across the state in the last 24 hours, taking the number of tests since the outbreak of the virus in March to 1,28,69,405.
The daily Covid count of Patna has also declined after a long time. On Sunday, only 89 fresh cases were reported in Patna, taking the district’s caseload to 39,180. However, the number of active cases in the district has dropped to 1,658 with 136 more people recuperating from the virus in the last 24 hours.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna (AIIMS-P) on Sunday registered five more deaths, though unofficially. The victims included a 51-year-old woman from Suratpur village in Vaishali and three men from Patna’s Khajekalan, Patrakar Nagar and Chandmari Road localities. The fifth victim, a 75-year-old man, was from Madhopur in Munger.
AIIMS-P nodal officer for Covid Dr Sanjeev Kumar said nine patients were admitted to the hospital and 14 discharged on Sunday. The new patients were from different localities of Patna like Kankarbagh, Shastri Nagar, Gardanibagh and also from other districts like Nalanda, Samastipur and Siwan.
At NMCH-Patna, no fresh Covid casualty was reported on Sunday. However, two new Covid patients were admitted to the hospital and three discharged on Sunday.