Keeping in view the ‘positive impact’ that the lockdown has shown over the past few days in the state, the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar announced the extension of lockdown by 10 days. The current lockdown that was imposed in May 5 was enforced till May 15.
The decision was taken after a meeting of the review committee and senior officials of the health department.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday tweeted about the development. “The infection rate has reduced during the lockdown period in Bihar with cases falling below the 10,000 mark in one day. It is helping break the chain of Corona in Bihar. Hence we have decided to extend the lockdown till May 25,” Kumar said in a tweet.
According to government’s data, positive cases had fallen below the 10,000 mark in the state for the first time after 22 days. Besides, cases have been reducing, for the the last 9 days consecutively.
On Wednesday, the health department said it had conducted 1,11,740 tests in the last 24 hours and 9,863 persons had tested positive.
Earlier on April 19, 7487 cases were registered. During the period of April 19 to May 11, the positive cases were above the 10,000 mark. On some days, the cases reached 15,000 in the state.
Meanwhile, as many states across the country have imposed lockdown like restrictions, the daily number of cases have seen several decline over the past few days.
