Nearly 50 per cent of the 574 Covid-19 cases that surfaced in Jharkhand on Sunday were from Ranchi.

It is the worst-affected district in terms of Covid case load in the state, data compiled by the health department highlighted.

As per a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM), at least 286 of the 574 Covid cases reported on Sunday were from Ranchi. The district also saw a rise in the number of active cases on the day after 244 recoveries were reported here against the over-280 fresh cases.

Ranchi was also the only district in Jharkhand to report a triple-digit spike in Covid cases on Sunday. All the remaining 23 districts reported less than 100 fresh cases of infection on the day. The Covid-19 tally in the district reached 22,531. Government data puts the number of active cases in the district at 2,669.

East Singhbhum, the second worst-affected district in the state, reported only 45 cases, while Bokaro reported 47 cases of infection on the day. As many as 42 people were found infected in Dhanbad, while Pakur reported zero cases of infection.

Covid-19 claimed three more lives in Jharkhand on Sunday, and two of the victims were from Dhanbad. East Singhbhum reported one death on the day, which took the toll in the district to 315, government data stated. As many as 144 Covid patients have died in Ranchi so far, and these two districts account for nearly 60 per cent of the Covid casualties in the state.

The Covid recovery rate in Jharkhand jumped further up at 90.32 per cent on Sunday against the national average of 86.20 per cent. As per government data, out of the 92,525 people infected by the virus in Jharkhand so far, 83,571 have recovered. As per figures with the NHM, there were 8,167 active cases of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand on Sunday evening.

The government in Jharkhand has collected swab samples of 26.45 lakh people and tested 26.40 lakh of them. On Sunday, health workers tested swab samples of 17,793 people and 17,219 of them came negative.

As per government figures, the Covid-19 mortality rate in Jharkhand was 0.85 per cent against the national average of 1.50 per cent. The doubling rate of infection in the state was 82.11 days against the national rate of 62.79 days. The growth rate of the virus in the past one week was 0.85 per cent in Jharkhand and 1.11 per cent in India.