According to Principal Secretary, Health, Sanjay KumarBuxar reported the maximum number of 14 cases during the day,raising the districts total to 40, making it the third worstaffected after Patna and Munger.
Twelve people tested positive in Naya Bhojpur villagealone, which accounts for most of the cases in Buxar. Thefresh cases include two girls aged six months and one year,besides a boy and a girl - both aged eight years. The oldestpatient happens to be a 65-year-old man. Seven patients fromthe village are females.
Two young men, aged 16 and 18 years, tested positivein the block headquarters of Dumraon.
The day also saw West Champaran becoming 29th of thestates 38 districts to be affected by the outbreak. All thepatients are from Yogapatti block and happen to be males inthe age group of 27-40 years.
Their infection trail was being ascertained, said theprincipal secretary.
Four persons tested positive in Darbhanga town andaccording to District Magistrate Thyagarajan they happen to bewife, brother, sister-in-law and mother-in-law of a 35-year-old migrant from Delhi who had returned last week and testedpositive a few days ago.
The state capital reported three more cases, one eachfrom Raja Bazar locality in the city and Paliganj andNaubatpur in rural Patna. The district retains the spot forthe second worst affected with 42 cases after Munger where 92have tested positive so far.
Three more people tested positive in Rohtas, two fromthe district headquarters of Rohtas besides an eight-year-oldboy from Badahari. The district now has 34 cases, all of whichare active.
Patna and Buxar have 37 cases each while Munger has80).
Bhojpur and Begusarai reported two cases each. Bothdistricts account for an equal number of 11 cases, though fivepeople have recovered in Begusarai as against only one inBhojpur.
According to the superintendent of Begusarai Sadarhospital, where corona patients from the district are lodgedin isolation wards, both patients happen to be men in their40s and actively associated with the Tablighi Jamaat. Whileone had attended its congregation at Nizamuddin in New Delhilast month, the other had taken part in a gathering at BiharSharif in Nalanda district, which is one of the hotspots inthe state.
One person each tested positive in Sitamarhi,Aurangabad, Madhepura and Vaishali districts.
Two COVID 19 patients one each from Vaishali andMunger have died while 65 have recovered fully.
Close to 300 cases have been reported in the state inthe last 10 days.
The number of samples tested so far is 21,180. Testingis conducted at six labs four in Patna and one each inMuzaffarpur and Darbhanga. NACRG RG