Bokaro recorded a Covid-19 recovery rate of 90.41 %, about 11 % higher than the country and state’s rate.

Jharkhand’s recovery rate is 79.80 % and the countrys’ 79.70 %.

Bokaro registered 0.60 % mortality rate, less than Jharkhand’s 0.86 % and the country’s 1.60 %.

The health department had conducted five mega Covid-19 camps in the last 21 days, testing more than 30,000 people in the district.

“At present there are 299 active cases and the majority of them are recovering well. They will also get discharged in a few days once it comes positive. While the mortality rate is as low as 0.60 % with only 20 deaths registered yet,” said Dr A K Pathak, civil surgeon.

The district is witnessing a sharp decline in the number of cases in the last five days.

“There was a spike in cases between August 25 and September 15, which is now on the decline,” said Pathak.

In a camp organised in Mohan Kumar Mangalam Stadium of Bokaro Township on Monday, sampling was done on 904 people. Of them only 10 tested positive. They were mostly BSL staff. This was the lowest figure of positive cases detected in the organised Covid camp till date.

In the first camp conducted at 14 places in the district on August 31 there were 9000 people tested of which 130 were positive.

The figure increased in the second camp organised in 16 places on September 8. Of the 9552 people tested, 335 of them tested positive.

The third mega camp organised on September 18 at 11 places recorded 91 positive cases among the 7283 people tested. Decline in the number of cases continued in the fourth camp on September 20 in which 7200 residents mostly from slum areas were tested and 56 of them tested positive.

Nodal officer, Dr Rakesh Gautam said, “Initially the patients which were coming till July were asymptomatic, later symptomatic patients started coming who were treated well. Apart from administering medicine as ICMR guidelines we were focused on building their immunity and also encouraged them to be positive. That practically works”.

District disaster management officer, Shakti Kumar said at present the number of containment zones has come down to 42 and are mostly in urban areas. Residents found the declining numbers encouraging. DC, Bokaro, Rajesh Kumar Singh appealed to people to wear masks and maintain social distance to keep themselves safe.