Over 100 infected after attending wedding ceremony in Bihar

A wedding ceremony in Patna appears to have set off the biggest infection chain in Bihar so far, the state health department said, as per PTI. The officials said the groom was running a high fever and two days after his wedding, he died and his body was cremated without conducting a Covid-19 test. In the last few days, more than 100 people have tested positive in Paliganj sub-division of Patna district, about 55 km from the state capital, out of over 350 who have been tested upon contact tracing, they said. Fifteen of his relatives who attended the wedding on June 15 tested positive for the contagion and apparently infected others.

The officials said the groom was a software engineer based in Gurugram and had returned home for his marriage in the last week of May. A few days after the ’tilak’ ceremony, he started showing symptoms of the disease. As a measure to contain the spread of the disease, a special camp was set up at the village where the marriage took place on June 24-26 during which samples of 364 people were collected. Of them, 86 tested positive, the officials added. Patna has reported 699 Covid-19 cases to date and five deaths, PTI cited figures provided by the administration.