The people of Jharkhand have started availing the facilities offered by Amrit Vahini website and the related chatbot.

A release issued by the state’s public relations department informed this on Sunday evening about those the online facilities the state government had introduced for Covid affected persons and their families on Friday.

“23,575 persons visited the website during the past three days and 356 persons booked hospital beds using it while 37,375 persons availed the services offered by the chatbot,” the release informed about the online facilities that chief minister Hemant Soren had inaugurated on Friday.

For the chatbot, interested persons can send their names on WhatsApp number 85955-24447 that helps open a chat box through which where they can obtain medical advice, information on prospective plasma donors and diet chart.

“I’m told that over 37,000 persons used this facilities so far and 356 got hospital beds booked through this app,” Soren was quoted as saying

in the release and added that people should utilise these facilities whenever they need those.

Jharkhand on Sunday reported 141 Covid-19 fatalities, raising the toll to 3,756, while the coronavirus tally mounted to 2,82,174 with 6,112 fresh cases, a health department bulletin said, adds PTI.

The state now has 61,195 active cases, while 2,17,223 patients have so far recovered from the disease, it said.

Ranchi district recorded the maximum number of 42 fatalities, followed by East Singhbhum (25) and Dhanbad (11). The recovery rate stood at 76.98 per cent as against the national average of 81.90 per cent, the bulletin said.

The mortality rate in the state, however, is higher at 1.33 per cent compared to 1.10 per cent at the national level. A total of 73,05,183 samples have been tested for Covid-19 in Jharkhand, including 45,658 since Saturday, it said.