BIHAR : COVID-19 tally in Bihar skyrocketed to 68,148 on Thursday when the state recorded more than 3,000 cases, for the first time, in a single day even as 19 casualties spiked the death toll to 388, the health department said here.
In its bulletin, the department also pointed out that a record number 60,254 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, a massive improvement since a month ago when the testing rate had stood at below 10,000 per day.
More than 50,000 positive cases have been reported in the last one month alone which has propelled Bihar to the eighth position in the country in terms of tally.
Cases of coronavirus in the state have now outnumbered those in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Haryana, where the incidence used to be higher.