29 new cases in Bihar, 49 recover in a single day

PATNA: Bihar saw the highest number of Covid-19 patients recover in a 24-hour span with 49 people being declared free from coronavirus even as 29 new cases, including five BMP personnel in Patna, were reported on Friday.
The BMP men were tested after a recently retired jawan tested positive on Thursday. The total number of cases in Patna is now 52 while the state total has gone up to 579 with 267 recoveries, five deaths and 307 active cases.
Sharing the news of the large number of recoveries, state health minister Mangal Pandey tweeted, “Today we got a good news that 21 corona positive people have recovered.In the past 24 hours, 49 people have defeated corona. Now total recovery cases have reached 267. It is 47% of total number of cases.”
Sanjay Kumar, principal secretary (health), said, “This recovery data shows that virus is not invincible. There is no need to panic and we will come out of it.” He added that most people who have been infected are young and easily fought the virus. As per information shared by Sanjay, the maximum number of cases on Friday were reported from Samastipur with six people testing positive. Four other cases were from Darbhanga, including three from Biraul block and one from Sobhan village, which falls under Darbhanga block. Khagaria also reported four positive cases, one each from Thutti and Malpa and two others from Chandpura Khurd locality.
Two cases were reported from Saharsa, one each from Balwa Bazar and Saurab Bazar. Nalanda also reported two new cases on Friday. Shikarganj in Belaghat in East Champaran, Koriyanda in Banka, Nathnagar in Bhagalpur and Chandpura in Begusarai also reported one case each.
Sanjay said most of these cases were of migrants who had recently returned to Bihar. “All six people who had tested positive in Samastipur had returned from Kolkata and one from Khagaria had come from Delhi. Even those from Supaul and Saharsa have come from outside Bihar. While four positive people in Darbhanga got infected from a positive person who had come from outside state,” said Sanjay.
In a separate tweet, Sanjay posted that 10 licences were given by his department in the past month for the manufacture of sanitizers in the state. He said prior to Covid-19 pandemic, there were no sanitizer manufacturing units in Bihar. “In the last month, health dept issued 10 licenses for the manufacture of sanitisers. Hope it will increase availability and lower the prices,” read a part of his tweet.