April 12, 2026 09:31 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Legendary singer Asha Bhosle suffers cardiac arrest, hospitalised | Big boost to India–Mauritius ties: S. Jaishankar hands over 90 e-buses | Middle East tension: Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for major talks, 10,000 security personnel deployed | Ranveer Singh visits RSS HQ amid Dhurandhar 2 success, triggers speculation | ED raids ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee; SSC scam resurfaces ahead of polls | Amit Shah promises UCC, ₹3,000 aid per month for women and youth in BJP’s Bengal manifesto | Nitish Kumar takes Rajya Sabha oath; power shift looms in Bihar | Sting video fallout: AIMIM snaps electoral ties with Humayun Kabir in Bengal | Israel says Hezbollah chief’s nephew-cum-secretary killed in Beirut strikes last night | Modi slams TMC on trade, fisheries at Haldia; vows 7th pay commission for govt employees
UNI

Bihar reports 15 new COVID-19 cases

| @indiablooms | May 17, 2020, at 05:52 pm

Patna/UNI: With detection of 15 new cases, the number of Corona positive cases has increased to 1193 while death toll reached 8 in Bihar.

Principal Secretary of Health Department Sanjay Kumar said here that the number of Corona positive cases had reached 1193 in Bihar so far after 15 new cases coming to light. Of them, 14 were from Rohtas and 1 from Patna, he added.

Kumar said that of the 14 cases detected in Rohtas, three were females of 22, 25 and 6 years of age while 11 males were 36, 23, 31, 31, 21, 18, 50, 66, 50, 40 and 28 years of age, adding that a 28-year-old female was found Corona positive in Patna.

With 14 cases reported from Rohtas, the total number of Corona positive cases had reached 91 in the district. In Patna, the total number of Corona positive cases is 107.

Number of Corona positive cases in Munger is 125, while the figure is 67 in Nalanda, followed by 59 in Buxar, 54 in Begusarai and 53 in Madhubani. Rest are in other districts of Bihar.

A total of eight people infected with Corona virus had lost their lives in the state so far.  

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.