Bihar government has decided to provide full salary to families of all government servants in case of their death in fight against Corona. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The full salary will be given to concerned families till date of retirement of the deceased employees and after family pension will be given as per government norms.
The government has also taken decision to provide government jobs to a family member of Corona warriors but they can opt either full salary of the deceased employees or government job to a family member.
Meanwhile, Bihar recorded it’s highest single day Corona case of 2803, taking the total count to 36,314. 24 thousand 520 patients have recovered and discharged from hospitals, while 11 thousand 561 are undergoing treatment. Recovery rate in Bihar is 68 percent. 232 people died due to Corona.
The Centre has asked Bihar to ramp up testing with special focus on containment zones. Union Health Ministry stressed on the need for prompt and proper delineation of containment zones, intensive contact tracing and house to house survey within containment zones to find out positive cases.
