The Covid-19 tally crossed the 20,000 mark in Ranchi on Sunday after the district reported over 350 cases in 24 hours.

The district reported 374 cases of infection against 291 recoveries on Sunday, which took the count of active cases here up at 3,437, the highest among all districts in Jharkhand. As many as 20,053 people have been infected by the virus in the capital district so far.

The total number of recoveries crossed the 75,000 mark on Sunday after as many as 907 Covid patients tested negative for the virus in a span of 24 hours, figures released by the state health department stated.

However, the count of active cases saw a marginal increase, as 933 new cases were reported on Sunday, taking the tally up at 87,210.

As many as 75531 of the 87,000-odd Covid patients have recovered from the infection so far, while 10,936 are still battling the virus.

While the state has registered a recovery rate of 86.60 per cent, which is higher than the national average, the number of deaths have also been on the rise. As per government data, at least nine more Covid-19 patients died during treatment on Sunday, taking the death toll in Jharkhand to 743.

The Covid mortality rate in the state was 0.85 per cent against the national Covid mortality rate of 1.60 per cent.

Three of the nine Covid deaths on Sunday occurred in Ranchi, while two patients died in East Singhbhum. Latehar reported two casualties, while Chatra and West Singhbhum reported one death each. The Covid toll in East Singhbhum reached 308 on Sunday; the toll in Ranchi was 127.

The number of active cases, however, reduced in East Singhbhum after the district reported 119 recoveries against 74 cases of infection. There were around 1800 active cases in East Singhbhum after Sunday’s findings.

The government on Sunday tested swab samples of 19,563 people across the state and 18,630 of them came negative. Health workers in Jharkhand have so far collected swab samples of 24 lakh people and tested 23.94 lakh of them.

The doubling rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 47.89 days against the national doubling rate of 49.76 days. The growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand in the past one week was 1.42 per cent against the national average of 1.30 per cent, stated National Health Mission (NHM) in a press communique.