The Covid situation in Jharkhand has remarkably improved during the past week and only three positive cases were found in the state on Saturday.

Though the health department continued testing up to 50,000 samples everyday, only up to a maximum 11 of them were found to be infected with Covid-19 during the past week.

Out of the 42,580 samples tested on Saturday, only 3 of those turned out to be positive. All those were from Ranchi district while the rest 23 districts did not have a single positive case.

The positivity rate in the state stood at 0.007 per cent on Saturday.

Jharkhand had an active caseload of 74 Covid-19 patients at 9pm on Saturday and Ranchi alone had 45 that accounted for nearly 61 per cent of the total caseload.

While 13 districts had not a single active case that time, Jamtara had 7 cases and Chatra 5 while Khunti, Seraikela, East Singbhum, Deoghar, Lohardaga, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Latehar had less than 5 cases each.

Ranchi has the maximum number of positive cases because people from across the state come here on various work and outsiders also use its airport or railway stations to reach the state and some of them are found positive when put to test, experts explain why the state capital had maximum active cases.

“Covid is under control but people should follow Covid-appropriate behaviour as the second wave is still not over and the country is recording more than 30,000 positive cases everyday,” said Dr Matin Ahmad Khan who recently took voluntary retirement from the post of a medical college professor.

“We are now living in a global village where international movement is very common and that is more the reason we have to be on alert because the disease is around,” he added.

“But the good thing is that the last survey found presence of antibody in about 68 per cent population, indicating we are perhaps heading towards herd immunity,” the doctor sounded hopeful.

He, however, cautioned that the disease, though may not remain a pandemic, will not be eradicated soon and may be present as endemic in certain parts of the country.