<span style="color: #222222;">Bihar government has appealed to people to avoid public gatherings during Holi and follow all social – distancing and safety norms. To tackle the situation the health department has targetted to test 70 percent of samples through RT-PCR and TruNet method.<br />'' <br />'' Health Minister Mangal Pandey has requested people to maintain precaution in view of increasing number of covid cases.<br />'' <br />'' 211 new cases were recorded on a single day yesterday. With this active cases have mounted to one thousand in different parts of the state.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Maximum new cases of 66 were reported from Patna followed by 16 in Araria and 12 in Gaya district of the state. However Covid -19 recovery is 99.03 percent in Bihar. Two lakh 61 thousand 839 patients have recovered from the infection in the state so far.</span>