Bihar: Buxar first district with no active Covid case

PATNA: Buxar has become the first among the 38 districts of Bihar with zero active coronavirus cases in the second wave of the pandemic. DM Aman Samir on Sunday said no new Covid cases had been reported in Buxar district in the past eight days. He told this newspaper that 2,600 to Rs 3,200 samples (including 850 RT-PCR) were being tested daily, depending on the climatic conditions.
The state reported 185 new cases out of the 1,00,021 samples tested in the last 24 hours. One coronavirus death was reported in Purnia, taking the state toll to 9,579.
The number of active cases in has come down below 10 in Kaimur (3), Jehanabad (4), Banka (6) and Nawada (10) whereas 30 districts have cases below 100 and two below 200. Patna has the maximum 311 active cases.
Total active cases declined by 4.8% in the past 24 hours, from 2,250 on Saturday to 2,142 on Sunday. The state recovery rate was up at 98.38%.
Of the new cases, 16 each were from Purnia and Samastipur, 15 in Patna, 12 in Vaishali, 11 each in Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur and 10 in Madhubani. The remaining districts had single-digit cases.
Meanwhile, two Covid patients died at AIIMS-Patna — one from Rajpur in Jamui and the other from Karnataka.
No Covid-19 death was reported from NMCH.