Jharkhand on Sunday reported the lowest single-day-spike in Covid-19 cases since July as only 203 people were found infected across the state in the past 24 hours, figures compiled by the state health department revealed.

At least 14 districts reported a single-digit-spike in cases on the day, the NHM bulletin highlighted. Ranchi was the only district to report more than 50 cases, while East Singhbhum reported 13 cases and Hazaribag reported 24 cases, the bulletin further stated.

Besides, three of the 24 districts in the state – Palamu, Pakur and Godda – did not report even a single fresh case of Covid-19 infection on the day, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated, highlighting the fall in the growth rate of the lethal virus in Jharkhand.

None of the districts reported a triple-digit-spike in cases on Sunday. Ranchi accounted for 60 fresh cases, the highest among all the districts in Jharkhand. Recoveries also outnumbered the fresh cases on Sunday, taking the recovery rate to 94.86 per cent in the state against the national average of 92.50 per cent. At least 298 Covid patients recovered from the infection in 24 hours.

The government on Sunday collected swab samples of 20,216 people and around 1 per cent of them were found to be infected. Health workers in Jharkhand have collected swab samples of 36.50 lakh people so far for Covid-19 tests and tested 36.32 lakh of them. Of the over 36 lakh people tested, as many as 1,04,442 were found to be Covid positive.

However, nearly 1 lakh Covid patients have defeated the viral infection in Jharkhand so far. The number of active cases of Covid-19 infection in the state was down at 4,471 on Sunday and the total number of recoveries stood at 99,074, government data highlighted.

No Covid-19 casualties were reported on Sunday, bringing the mortality rate down at 0.85 per cent against the national average of 1.50 per cent. As many as 897 people have died of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand so far, figures with the health department state. While 337 people have died of the infection in East Singhbhum, Ranchi has reported 179 Covid fatalities.

As per government data, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.27 per cent against the national average of 0.48 per cent on Sunday. The doubling rate of the virus in the state was 257.17 days against the national doubling rate of 145.81 days.