( Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addressing a meeting on possibility of flood & drought)
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Patna : Active cases further dropped to 8,230 in Bihar including 1,003 in Patna on June 7 as only 762 more persons tested positive for Covid-19 in the state on June 6, 2021. The Active cases count was 8,707 in Bihar on June 6, 2021. Bihar also reported 43 new deaths due to Covid-19 in last 24 hours taking the death toll to 5,424 in the state on June 7, 2021. The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients improved to 98.09% in Bihar on June 7 from 98.02% on June 6, 2021.
The 762 new Covid-19 cases included 69 in Gopalganj, 66 in Patna, 55 in Purnia, 49 in Supaul, 48 in Samastipur, 39 in Begusarai, 38 in Araria, 28 in Munger, 26 in Saharsa, 24 in Bhagalpur, 23 in Siwan, 22 in Muzaffarpur, 22 in Madhubani, 21 in East Champaran, 19 in Darbhanga, and 18 in Madhepura.
Bihar has tested 3,06,73,286 samples so far including 1,00,113 samples on June 6, 2021. Of the 7,13,879 Covid-19 cases reported so far in Bihar, a total of 7,00,224 patients have been declared cured.
The 41 new deaths due to Covid-19 included 8 in Arwal, 7 in Munger, 4 in Patna, 4 in Siwan, 4 in Araria, 3 in Samastipur, 3 in Darbhanga, and 2 in Vaishali. With it, the toll climbed to 1,223 in Patna, 328 in West Champaran, 294 in Muzaffarpur, 270 in Bhagalpur, 191 in Darbhanga, 188 in Gaya, 156 in Siwan, 154 in Madhubani, 153 in Munger, 131 in Vaishali, 109 in Samastipur, 89 in Madhepura, 78 in Araria, 70 in Purnia, 67 in Arwal, and 50 in Katihar.
