Patna: Seven people in Patna, including those who have returned from England, were tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.
Overall, the country recorded 13 new cases in the last 24 hours against 1.79,869 samples tested.
That day also saw 17 people recovering from the virus.
With this, the number of Covid cases active in the state has dropped to 78.
Patna Civil Surgeon Dr.
Vibha Kumari Singh said people from the UK had come to Patna on Thursday.
This is the fourth case of foreign refugees that tested positive Covid on Patna in a week.
On Wednesday, two people from the UK who had returned from England and One South Africa Returnee had been positively tested for Covid-19.
Their genome sequencing report is awaited.
Apart from Patna, Purnia and Munger registered two cases each on Friday and Begusarai and Nalanda one case respectively.
13 new cases have taken Covid calculations as a whole to 7.26,418.
However, 7.14,245 people have so far recovered from the virus in the state and 12,094 surrendered to him.
Meanwhile, a positive covid patient who was just received in Aiims-Patna, took the number of patients like that at the hospital to five.