Summary:
412 fresh Covid-19 cases were registered in Bihar on Monday, taking the tally to 2,31,044.
State health minister Mangal Pandey tweeted that 480 people had recovered in the past 24 hours while 1,06,055 samples were tested in the same period.
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412 fresh Covid-19 cases were registered in Bihar on Monday, taking the tally to 2,31,044.
Officially, six deaths were reported, which took the toll to 1,227 in the state.
However, the state has 97.25% recovery rate as there were only 5,114 active cases in Bihar.
As per the health department’s data, two deaths each were reported from Patna and Madhubani, followed by one each from Muzaffarpur and Nalanda.
Of the new cases, 155 were from Patna, taking its tally to 40,627.
However, with 38,632 recoveries and 314 deaths, there were only 1,681 active cases in the district.
The other districts with new cases in double digits were Aurangabad (31), Begusarai (19), Saharsa (18), Bhagalpur (16), Gaya (13), Saran (11), Nalanda (11) and Nawada (11).
Apart from the state government’s figures, AIIMS-Patna reported two more deaths on Sunday.
One was a 53-year-old male from Kasba village in Purnia and another 70-year-old man from Bajipur in Barh of Patna district.
AIIMS-Patna’s nodal incharge for Covid-19, Dr Sanjeev Kumar said 12 new patients were admitted and 15 got discharged on Monday.