This story is from April 22, 2021

Bihar crosses 12k Covid cases, mortality rate up 20%

Bihar continues to break the daily Covid caseload record with 12,222 new Covid-19 patients confirmed in the past 24 hours, up from 10,455 cases reported in the state on Tuesday.
Bihar crosses 12k Covid cases, mortality rate up 20%
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PATNA: Bihar continues to break the daily Covid caseload record with 12,222 new Covid-19 patients confirmed in the past 24 hours, up from 10,455 cases reported in the state on Tuesday. With 56 deaths officially confirmed by the state health department on Wednesday, the toll went up to 1,897 from 1,841. The total number of cases in the state now stands at 3.54 lakh.
While the Covid test positivity rate touched 11.5% on Wednesday with 1,05,980 samples tested in 24 hours, the mortality rate has increased by 20% in the past 20 days.

Patna continued to register the highest daily caseload with 2,919 people infected with the virus in the past 24 hours, pushing the overall infections to 80,351. The district witnessed a jump of 33.5% in daily cases when compared to Tuesday’s 2,186. So far, 64,494 people have recovered in Patna, taking the active cases to 15,310.
Other districts, which reported the maximum number of Covid-19 cases include 861 in Gaya, Saran (636), Begusarai (587), Aurangabad (560), Bhagalpur (526), West Champaran (516), Muzaffarpur (445), Purnia (318) and Vaishali (311).
Patna has also recorded the highest fatalities with 13 more deaths in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 534. Bhagalpur also logged 13 causalities, Muzaffarpur (5), four each in Darbhanga, Gaya and Jehanabad, two each in Nalanda and Saran, and one each in Araria, Buxar, Madhepura, Madhubani, Munger, Paschim Champaran, Samastipur, Supaul and Vaishali.
According to unofficial figures not confirmed by the health department, 20 more people succumbed while undergoing treatment at Covid hospitals in the state capital. Seven patients died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences- Patna.

The number of patients dying at the Covid-dedicated Nalanda Medical College and Hospital- Patna (NMCH-P) increased to 13 on Wednesday from seven on Tuesday. There were six deaths in Patna, including a 32-year-old woman from Anisabad, two from Chappra and one each from Nawada, Vaishali, Munger and Gopalganj. The number of admissions at the hospital rose to 259 with 93 more positive patients admitted on Wednesday.
Apart from the spike in deaths and fresh cases, the number of patients with an active infection in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic zoomed to 63,746, a 33-fold rise since April 1, when the active cases had stood at 1,907.
Bihar’s recovery rate has also plunged steeply over the past few days. The overall recovery has dropped by 10% in just one week. It now stands at 81.4%. The state’s recovery rate has declined by 3.6% lower than the national average of 85%. A total of 4,774 patients were discharged after recovering, taking the number of cured people to 2,88,637 in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, 75,671 beneficiaries got the anti-Covid vaccines on Wednesday, which included the first and the second doses. While 55,211 beneficiaries received their first dose, another 20,460 got the second jab. So far, 62,67,491 people have taken the first and the second doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the state.
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Faryal Rumi

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