The number of Covid-19 recoveries in Jharkhand drew close to the 95,000 mark on Thursday after at least 461 more patients tested negative for the coronavirus, figures compiled by the health department stated.
Recoveries outnumbered fresh cases of the infection on Thursday, taking the Covid-19 recovery rate in the state close to 94 per cent. As many as 395 people, including 78 from Ranchi and 61 from East Singhbhum, were found infected across Jharkhand during the day, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted.
While the number of active cases dropped to 5,294 after Thursday’s findings, the number of casualties further rose to 883 after three more patients breathed their last in 24 hours, the NHM bulletin stated. The mortality rate in Jharkhand, as per government records, was 0.87 per cent against the national average of 1.50 per cent.
Ranchi reported the highest number of cases among all the districts in the state on Thursday. As per government records, there were around 1,700 active cases of Covid-19 infection in Ranchi on Thursday, while around 1,300 people were battling the infection in East Singhbhum.
The government on Thursday tested swab samples of 31,564 people and 31,169 of them were found to be negative. As per government records, health workers in Jharkhand have collected swab samples of around 32.46 lakh people and tested around 32.33 lakh of them.
Of the 883 Covid victims in Jharkhand, at least 333 were from East Singhbhum and 175 from Ranchi, which means that nearly 60 per cent of the fatalities reported in the state so far occurred in these two districts. At least 669 of the 883 victims were older than 50 years, while 173 were in the age bracket of 31 to 50 years. At least 38 Covid victims were younger than 30 years.
Barring Dhanbad, Ranchi and East Singhbhum, all the districts in Jharkhand reported less than 50 fresh cases of infection on Thursday. The count of active cases was below 1,000 in all the districts apart from Ranchi and East Singhbhum.
As per government records, Jharkhand’s Covid-19 doubling rate was 168.19 days against the national average of 126.11 days. The growth rate of the infection in the state was 0.36 per cent against the national growth rate of 0.59 per cent.
