Patna: Covid-19 claims lives of gynaecologist, 3 others

PATNA: Noted gynaecologist Dr Shanti H K Singh died at All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna (AIIMS-P) on Sunday due to coronavirus.
AIIMS-P nodal officer for Covid Dr Sanjeev Kumar said the 73-year-old doctor, former head of department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Patna Medical College and Hospital, was admitted to the hospital on January 2. “Dr Singh was a spine cancer patient.She had tested positive for Covid on January 2 after returning from Mumbai where she had gone for routine check-up,” Dr Kumar said.
Meanwhile, the state’s Covid tally increased to 2,56,778 on Sunday with 359 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. Four fresh deaths, on the other hand, took the state’s Covid toll to 1,434. With the death of three more people in Patna, the district’s Covid toll has mounted to 397. The day’s fourth death was recorded in West Champaran.
With 408 people recuperating from the virus in the last 24 hours, actives cases in the state stood at 4,078 on Sunday. So far, 2,51,266 people have been discharged from different hospitals in the state. The state’s recovery rate, meanwhile, touched 97.85% on Sunday.
Altogether 1,00,487 samples were tested at different health facilities in the state in the last 24 hours. So far, 1,92,81,224 samples have been tested in the state since the outbreak of the virus in March last year.
Apart from Dr Singh, four more Covid patients have died at AIIMS-P – a 51-year-old man from Rajendra Nagar (road number 6) in Patna, a 49-year-old man from Bhojpur, a 55-year-old man from Karmali Hata in Siwan and a 65-year-old man from Vishambarpur in Saran.
Dr Kumar said 12 patients from Bhoothnath Road, Khagaul and Agamkuan in Patna and others from Siwan, Nalanda and Vaishali were admitted to the hospital and 11 discharged on Sunday.
No new Covid casualty was reported at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital on Sunday.
Of the 359 fresh cases recorded in the state in the last 24 hours, Patna alone accounted for 168. The district’s Covid tally has now touched 50,646. Active cases in the district, however, stood at 1,656 on Sunday.