Purnia reports maximum 22 new Covid cases

PATNA: The daily new Covid-19 count and deaths in the state continued to fall on Friday with only 207 people testing positive for the infection and three official deaths reported in the last 24 hours. In the same time period, 365 people recovered, bringing down the number of active cases to 2,396.
These new cases were registered against 10,86,98 samples tested.Of the three deaths, two were from Patna and one from Darbhanga. One death of a 60-year-old Nalanda resident was reported from Nalanda, while no deaths were reported from AIIMS-Patna or IGIMS on Friday.
Patna district also witnessed a downward trend with only 20 people testing positive for Covid-19. Maximum 22 new cases were reported from Purnia. Covid-19 cases from some other districts included Muzaffarpur (14), Samastipur (13), Saran (12), Vaishali (11) and Begusarai (10).