Patna: A COVID-19 patient reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the roof of AIIMS, Bihar's designated COVID facility. According to reports, the patient, who was 21 years of age, was admitted to the hospital with mild symptoms.
This is the third such incident from the capital Patna.
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to increase in the state, it is imperative to think that health infrastructure has become overwhelmed, even when health minister Mangal Pandey claiming the state's system is the best in the country.
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A central team, which visited Patna and Gaya earlier this week has shared its inputs about the spiralling coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases with the state and has warned low testing ratio may impact its case fatality rate of the viral outbreak in Bihar.
Bihar has registered testing ratio at 3423 per million population, while the mortality rate stands at 0.69 %.
Expressing concern over the spike in the Covid-19 positivity rate, the central team cautioned the Nitish Kumar-led government that low testing could lead to a spread in the infection and asked the administration to conduct rapid antigen detection test in containment areas of the state.
