All samples taken at Madhubani railway station test Covid negative

PATNA: With 11 new cases, the state’s Covid-19 tally reached 7,25,918 on Wednesday. These fresh cases were registered in Gaya (2), Darbhanga (2), Begusarai (1), Bhojpur (1), East Champaran (1), Khagaria (1), Saharsa (1), and Muzaffarpur (1).
Altogether 11 people also recuperated from Covid on Wednesday, taking the total number of recoveries to 7,16,199 and active cases to 59 in Bihar.
Besides, as many as 2,25,041 doses of Covid-19 vaccines were administered to the beneficiaries in the state.
Meanwhile, none of the samples collected from Madhubani was found positive in the RT-PCR test. Altogether 67 people at the Madhubani railway station were found positive in a random test done after the arrival of trains on Sunday and Monday from outside Bihar. This news had created fear among the residents.
“However, in the RT-PCR test, none of the samples tested positive,” health department’s special secretary, Sanjay Kumar Singh, told TOI on Wednesday.
Officials of the health department said there could be some error with the batch of antigen kit used for the test. “This cannot be confirmed, but we expect that something was wrong with the kit otherwise other districts would have also reported an increase in the number of cases,” claimed an official.