Six more test positive for COVID-19 in Bihar, total rises to 92

Six more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Bihar on Sunday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 92, a top health department official said.

Of these six fresh infections, two were reported from Buxar district and four from Nalanda district.

Two members of a family, a 30-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, from Buxar tested positive for COVID-19, said Principal Secretary (Health) Sanjay Kumar.

"Both persons (who are members) of a family from Buxar came in touch with a COVID-19 positive person who had travelled to Asansol," he said.

Buxar District Magistrate (DM) Aman Samir said the man and the woman are family members of two men who had tested positive for coronavirus on April 16. All of them live together.

Earlier, the DM had said that the two men, aged 35 and 67, had returned home on March 30 after taking part in a Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Asansol, West Bengal. They are believed to have picked up the infection from infected delegates at the ...