Recoveries outnumbered fresh cases of Covid-19 infection on Sunday in Jharkhand, causing a fall in the number of patients, figures compiled by the health department highlighted. Jharkhand reported a spike in active cases for three consecutive days until Sunday.
On Sunday, as many as 145 people were found infected by the lethal virus while 169 patients recovered, bringing the number of active cases down at 1468, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
Ranchi, which reported a triple-digit-spike in cases for the past three days, registered 86 cases against 87 recoveries on Sunday. However, the number of active cases here remained above 700, which is around 50 per cent of the total active cases of Covid-19 infection across Jharkhand.
As per the NHM bulletin, at least eight of 24 districts did not report even a single case of Covid-19 infection on the day. East Singhbhum reported 23 cases, while Dhanbad and Bokaro reported seven cases each. Only Ranchi and East Singhbhum reported a double-digit-spike spike in cases on the day.
Meanwhile, two Covid patients, one each from Dhanbad and Palamu, died during treatment on Sunday, taking the Covid toll in Jharkhand up at 1047, government data stated. So far, East Singhbhum has reported 355 of the over 1000 Covid fatalities in the state, while Ranchi has witnessed 223 Covid casualties.
On Sunday, the government tested swab samples of 12,316 people and more than 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, the government has collected swab samples of 49.59 lakh people and tested 49.46 lakh of them. Around 12,000 samples were pending for tests.
As per government data, the Covid tally in Jharkhand was 1,16,187 and nearly 98 per cent of the patients have recovered. As many as 1,14,302 patients have defeated Covid-19 virus in Jharkhand so far.
The growth rate of the virus was 0.14 per cent in Jharkhand against the national average of 0.15 per cent, highlighted the NHM bulletin. As per the bulletin, it would take 500 days for the cases to double in Jharkhand. The doubling rate in India was 458.34 days.