PATNA: Amid the row over addition of nearly 4,000 unregistered Covid deaths earlier this week, Covid fatalities in the state seem to have sharply plunged over the last few days.
As compared to around 100 deaths reported daily till May 25, just 16 deaths were registered in the state on Friday.
The state’s daily Covid toll had come down below 50 for the first time in the second wave of the pandemic on May 29 when 48 deaths were reported.
The daily deaths came down to 28 on June 3 and surged slightly on June 7 when it reached 41.
However, the toll again came down to 23 on Thursday and 16 on Friday.
So far, 9,466 people have succumbed to Covid in the state.
Apart from the data furnished by the health department, four deaths were reported by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS-Patna) on Friday.
Meanwhile, daily Covid caseload has also plummeted sharply as just 566 cases were reported on Friday.
Patna registered the maximum fresh cases at 45 followed by Gopalganj (42), Muzaffarpur (37), Purnia (33), Samastipur (31), Saran (31), Araria (26) and Darbhanga (26).
The total number of people infected with the virus in Bihar since its outbreak in March last year stands at 7,16,295.
Altogether 7,00,481 people have recovered from the virus.
Accordingly, the Covid recovery percentage in the state stands at 97.79%, which is 2.86% higher than the national rate of 94.93%.
The number of active cases, on the other hand, stood at 6,348 on Friday as 1,099 patients recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours.
Samples of 1,10,119 people were tested in the state in the last 24 hours.
So far, 3,10,93,130 samples have been tested in the state since March last year.
Meanwhile, 1,18,52,876 people took their first and second doses of Covid vaccines in the state on Friday.