AMN
Covid-19 vaccination drive will now be carried out on all seven days a week, depending on the requirement of each district in Bihar. Health Minister Mangal Pandey said, the number of session sites will be increased to nearly five hundred from the existing three hundred per day.
He said,the health department is now targeting to vaccinate 50 thousand healthcare and frontline workers everyday. One lakh six thousand 25 people have been vaccinated in the state so far.
5 lakh 62 thousand health workers have registered for vaccination.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 98.92 per cent. Two lakh 57 thousand 669 patients have so far recovered from the Covid-19 infection in Bihar.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 is continuously declining. Currently, one thousand 315 patients are receiving treatment at various hospitals.
In all, 278 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, while 121 new COVID-19 cases have been reported. No positive case was reported from 11 districts from the state.