PATNA: The Covid positivity rate in Bihar came down to 0.88% on Saturday as the state reported 1,007 new cases against 11,38,80 samples tested in the past 24 hours.
Official death toll was also one of the lowest registered in the second wave so far, with 21 people succumbing to the virus.
Two deaths at IGIMS due to mucormycosis were also reported.
In the past 24 hours, 1667 people recovered, taking the total recoveries to 69,72,29, which was 97.90%.
With the increase in the number of recoveries, active cases came below 10,000 in the state.
Maximum 83 new cases were reported from Supaul, followed by Patna (71), Munger (67), Madhubani (54), Madhepura (49) and Darbhanga (48).
As per the information shared by different hospitals, IGIMS reported three deaths, including two due to mucormycosis.
On Saturday, three new patients with mucormycosis were admitted there.
Six deaths were reported from AIIMS-Patna where 15 patients got admitted and 21 were discharged on Saturday.
There were 110 patients in the hospital.
NMCH reported four deaths, including a 24-year-old male from Rampur Dumra in Patna and another 24-year-old woman from Siwan.
One patient was admitted and ten got discharged on Saturday, leaving 70 patients in the hospital.
Altogether 10,71,80 people were given Covid-19 vaccines, including 10,11,54 who got the first shot.
Among them, 69,383 were in the 18 to 44 years of age.
So far 19,20,656 people of that age group have received the shot.
Meanwhile, state health minister Mangal Pandey on Saturday said the department was taking all necessary measures to tackle the situation taking into account the onset of monsoon and diseases which spread after that.
Pandey said apart from providing training to anganwadi and Asha workers regarding AES, cholera and diarrhoea, all necessary medicines have been made available at the health centres.
Covid positivity rate falls below 1%, 1,000 new cases in Bihar
