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Bihar records highest single-day spike in Covid cases, deaths

The Covid situation in Bihar turned severe as the daily cases of infection breached the 10,000-mark for the first time on Tuesday. The state recorded 10,455 fresh coronavirus cases and 51 fatalities, which was so far the highest single-day Covid caseload and death toll in the state during the pandemic since March last year.
Bihar records highest single-day spike in Covid cases, deaths
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PATNA: The Covid situation in Bihar turned severe as the daily cases of infection breached the 10,000-mark for the first time on Tuesday. The state recorded 10,455 fresh coronavirus cases and 51 fatalities, which was so far the highest single-day Covid caseload and death toll in the state during the pandemic since March last year.
The previous highest single-day caseload was registered on April 18 with 8,690 cases.
As the state continues to break all its previous records, there were 56,355 active cases on Tuesday, registering a surge of 13.7%, compared to 49,528 cases on Monday. The cumulative caseload in the state has reached up to 3,42,059 while death toll mounted to1,841 in the past 24 hours.
Patna alone had 20.9% of the cases with 2,186 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, taking the overall infection caseload in the district to 77,412. With 62,449 recoveries and 534 deaths, the district had 14,429 active cases. Patna witnessed a jump of 5.27% in active cases, which were 13,706 on Monday.
Gaya crossed the 1,000-mark on a single day with the highest number of 1,081 fresh cases reported so far on Tuesday, taking its overall tally to 14,050.
After Patna and Gaya, Muzaffarpur had the maximum 544 cases, followed by Saran (530), Bhagalpur (449), Nalanda (375), Auranagabad (350), Begusarai (346), Vaishali (334), Munger (317), Purnia (294) and Buxar and West Champaran (232 each).
The positivity rate in Bihar also jumped to 9.8% on Tuesday as 10,455 out of the 83,361 samples processed in the last 24 hours tested positive. The mortality rate also increased to 3.01%, compared to the 1790 deaths till Monday.

As far as fresh causalities are concerned, Patna and Gaya registered 11 deaths each. Bhagalpur logged five deaths, while four casualties each were reported in Jehanabad and Paschim Champaran, three each in Aurangabad and Munger, two each in Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur and one each in Arwal, Banka, Bhojpur, Lakhisarai, Madhepura and Nalanda.
Official deaths apart, 10 more succumbed to Covid at health facilities in Patna. Maximum seven persons lost their lives at NMCH followed by three in PMCH.
The overall recovery rate in Bihar further declined by 1.53%, from 84.52% on Monday to 82.99% on Tuesday. The state’s recovery rate has dropped 2.57% lower than the national average of 85.56%. A total of 3,577 patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, taking the number of cured persons to 2,83,863 in the state.
Meanwhile, altogether 93,164 beneficiaries were administered the anti-Covid vaccines on Tuesday, which included 67,186 receiving their first dose.
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