Patna accounts for 43% new Covid cases in Bihar
Hindustan TimesPatna accounted for 1,956 new Covid-19 cases in Bihar, which was over 43% of the total 4,526 cases reported in the state on Saturday, and the state capital’s test positivity rate jumped from 12.26% to over 20% in the last three days, said officials in the state health department. The test positivity rate of Muzaffarpur, which reported 263 new cases on Saturday, Nalanda, Begusarai, Gaya, Saharsa and Arwal was higher than Bihar’s average positivity of 2.15% said Amrit. Executive director of the State Health Society, Sanjay Kumar Singh, who accompanied Pandey to AIIMS, said half of the 38 Covid-19 patients admitted there were unvaccinated. He said 96 doctors and nurses from the state would be trained under the National Oxygen Stewardship Programme of the Central government for management of moderate to critical cases of Covid-19.