COVID-19 | Three fresh cases reported in Bihar

Number of cases in State touches nine

Patna/Bihar: A health official takes thermal scanning test to a passenger who came from Mumbai inside a bus in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at Mithapur bus stand in Patna on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar/The Hindu

With three new cases of COVID-19 reported in Bihar, the figure touched nine in the State on March 27.

According to reports, a private hospital compounder in Patna, where the first COVID-19 patient from Munger district was admitted earlier, has been found COVID-19 positive in tests.

Besides, two youth — one from Jaganpura in the district and the other from Siwan — too tested positive for COVID-19. The Siwan youth recently came from Dubai.

Bihar, so far, has reported one fatality .

The State government hospital doctors, meanwhile, have been facing an acute shortage of N-95 masks, gloves, sanitisers, gowns and other Personal Protective Equipment.