Bihar announces lockdown till May 15 to deal with rising Covid cases
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Bihar: The Bihar government has announced lockdown in the state till May 15 in the wake of rising Covid-19 cases and a continuing shortage of life-saving drugs, medical oxygen and hospital beds across the state. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced the decision through a tweet on Tuesday morning. The state has reported 11,407 positive cases on Monday taking the number of active cases to 107,667. The state capital continued to remain a hotspot, contributing 2,028 of the new Covid-19 infections during the last 24 hours. Patna also accounted for 24 of the 82 Covid-19 deaths in the state during this period. Bihar’s Covid-19 death toll has reached 2,821 and the number of cases has raced to 5.09 lakh since the detection of the first Covid-19 patient in the state on March 22, last year. The state government, in the last week of April, had pre-pone the night curfew timing from 9 pm to 6 pm and ordered the closure of shops from 4 pm instead of 6 pm.
