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Bihar records most Covid deaths in a day, shows faulty testing strategy

Testing in Bihar has declined from 87,718 daily tests in January to 37,370 in March

Coronavirus, vaccine, covid, drugs
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Ishaan Gera New Delhi
Coronavirus (Covid-19) infections continued to scale new highs in the country and were just shy of 60,000 on Thursday, with fatalities rising as well and the country registering 257 deaths.

The death rate in the country, however, is nowhere near the peak during the first wave of infections. While India is recording 9 deaths per 1,000 cases at present, last year in September, when the country came close to recording 100,000 cases, this number stood at 14. However, the number of daily deaths have increased 2.2 times in just a month. The one-week average of deaths for the week ending

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