State reports 36th death, 186 new Covid-19 cases

Patna: Bihar reported 36th Covid death and 186 more positive cases on Sunday. Altogether 6,475 people have tested positive for coronavirus in state so far. While 3,975 of them recovered from the virus, 2,464 people remained infected in the state till Sunday evening.
A 50-year-old man of Lalganj town in Vaishali district was admitted to Sadar hospital on June 11 and died the same day due to cardiac arrest.His sample report came positive on June 12, additional chief medical officer in Vaishali, Dr Gyan Singh, said. However, the state health department confirmed the death on Sunday. It was the third Covid death in the district.
Dr Kameshwar Mandal, deputy superintendent of Sadar hospital, said the man had returned from Haryana on June 7. “The samples of his family members were also collected for testing,” he said.
According to the health department’s report, fresh coronavirus cases were reported from 26 districts on Sunday with the maximum 24 from Sitamarhi, followed by 16 in Samastipur, 14 in Sheohar, 13 in Saran, 12 each in Siwan and Gopalganj, 11 in Muzaffarpur, 10 in Vaishali (10), seven each in West Champaran, Nawada and Aurangabad, six in Patna, five in Bhagalpur, four each in Banka, Buxar and Nalanda, three each in Sheikhpura and East Champaran, two each in Munger and Sheohar and one each in Madhubani, Bhojpur, Lakhisarai, Gaya and Madhepura districts.
In Patna, a 24-year-old man in Kumhrar tested positive whereas 4 people, including two females, were found infected in Daniyawan. One man (55) from Phulwarisharif also tested positive for the virus.
State health secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh said total 1,23,629 samples had been tested so far, including 3,543 in the past 24 hours. He said altogether 4,449 migrants, who returned from other states, had tested positive till Sunday morning.
“In the last 24 hours, 289 people were discharged from different hospitals after their subsequent test reports came negative,” he said.