PATNA: Over 15,000 senior citizens and 2,463 people above 45 years of age with comorbidities took Covid-19 vaccine shots on Saturday. Vaccination for this priority group had started on March 1. In six days, at least 50,000 of them have been inoculated in the state.
In addition, 4,796 frontline and healthcare workers got their first jab on Saturday. Similarly, 21,661 healthcare workers got their second jab. As per State Health Society, no adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) case was reported during the day.
Meanwhile, the state recorded just 22
Covid cases on Saturday. These new cases were reported from 10 districts, including Patna. In Patna, nine more people tested positive for the virus on Saturday. Lakhisarai and Muzaffarpur recorded three new cases each and Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Gaya, Jamui, Nalanda, Saran and Supaul one case each.
Altogether 28 people recuperated from the virus in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s recovery rate to 99.28%. Even though the state’s Covid tally has reached 2,62,728, there were just 332 active cases on Saturday.
Number of Covid cases in Bihar has dropped at a time when several other states are witnessing a spike in new cases. Six states – Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand – and two Union territories – Delhi and Chandigarh – have been asked by the Centre to return to the fundamentals of “test, track and treat”. These states and UTs have of late seen a spike in Covid cases.