PATNA: For the first time since the second Covid wave, the state registered fresh cases in single digit on Saturday when just eight people tested positive for the virus. The day also saw 30 people recovering from the virus. The number of active cases in the state has further come down 146. No Covid casualty was reported in the state on Saturday.
The fresh cases have taken the state’s Covid tally to 7,25,568. So far, 7,15,777 people have recovered from the virus and 9,649 succumbed to it in the state.
Of the eight new cases, East Champaran accounted for two. Patna and four other districts registered one case each.
Meanwhile, 1,05,411 doses of Covid vaccines were administered across the state on Saturday. So far, over 3.23 crore vaccine doses have been administered in the state.
