Bihar health dept secy among 54 dead, Covid cases hit another peak
Sheezan.Nezami@timesgroup.com
Patna:24.04.2021
The state health department additional secretary, Ravi Shankar Choudhary, died of Covid-19 complications on Friday. He was among the 54 fatalities officially reported even as Bihar created yet anotherrecord with 12,672 people testing positive in a day out of 1,0,8147 samples tested.
Choudhary, who had also served as Arwal DM, breathed his last at AIIMS-Patna. CM Nitish Kumar and healthminister Mangal Pandey expressed deep condolence over his death. Nitish said Choudhary’s demise was a big loss to the administration and society and prayed for the departed soul and his family. Pandey also prayed for the departed soul and called his death a big loss for the department.
On the back of the spiking caseload and rising deaths, Bihar’s Covid positivity rate on Friday also reached 11.71%, which is the highest so far and above the danger mark. Patna also reported the highest number of new cases where 2,801 people tested positive.
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