PATNA: The state recorded n Saturday its highest number of single-day cases with 7,870 more people testing positive and 34 dying of the virus during the past 24 hours. The last 50,000 cases have been added in just 17 days, making it the fastest spread since the onset of the pandemic last year.
Patna district alone contributed around 24.1% to the new cases in the state as 1,898 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours, taking the overall infection caseload to 70,204 in the district. The number of active cases climbed to 12,118 on Saturday from 11,155 on Friday. So far, 57,584 people have recovered from the Covid infection in Patna.
Other districts, which reported maximum number of Covid-19 cases after Patna were Gaya (610), Muzaffarpur (541), Begusarai (326), Bhagalpur (322), West Champaran (269), Saran (256), Munger (255),
Saharsa (247), Auranagabad (215) and Siwan and
Rohtas with 188 cases each. These districts altogether contributed to 43% of the fresh cases in Bihar.
The state positivity rate has jumped to 7.8% from 1.3% in just a fortnight. The overall recovery rate declined further by 1.54%, from 88.57% on Friday to 86.93% on Saturday. The state’s recovery rate has dropped 0.3% lower than the national average of 87.23%.
The fresh cases took the cumulative infection tally in the state to 3,15,427 and death toll to 1,722 in the last 24 hours, a per the data shared by the health department on Saturday.