At least 229 Covid recoveries against 144 fresh cases brought the number of active cases of Covid-19 infection below 1400 in Jharkhand on Monday, figures compiled by the state health department highlighted.

Despite reporting the highest number of cases among all the districts in Jharkhand on Monday, Ranchi reported a fall in the count of active cases on the day. At least 71 people were found infected in Ranchi during the past 24 hours, while 124 patients recovered here, bringing the number of patients down to 678, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.

The NHM on Monday released weekly trends on Covid-19, which revealed that Ranchi reported 50.2 per cent of the total Covid cases that surfaced in Jharkhand from December 14 to January 10. Dhanbad accounted for 10 per cent of cases during this period, while East Singhbhum reported 9.9 per cent of cases, the NHM stated in its report. Bokaro reported 5.9 per cent of cases during these four weeks, while Palamu reported 4.9 per cent of cases.

As per government data, as many as 1382 people were battling the viral infection across Jharkhand by the end of Monday, and close to 50 per cent of them were residents of Ranchi. At least 157 people were infected in East Singhbhum, while all the remaining 22 districts had less than 100 active cases by Monday evening.

At least nine of 24 districts in Jharkhand did not report even a single case of Covid-19 infection on the day, Palamu, Bokaro, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad and Ranchi reported a double-digit-spike. East Singhbhum reported 15 cases against 24 recoveries, while Dhanbad reported 14 cases against 19 recoveries. At least 12 people were found infected in Bokaro and 10 in Palamu in 24 hours.

A Covid patient from Bokaro died during treatment on Monday, taking the Covid toll in the state up at 1048, the NHM bulletin highlighted. The Covid mortality rate in the state was 0.89 per cent against the national average of 1.40 per cent.

The government on Monday tested swab samples of 13058 people and more than 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, health workers have collected swab samples of 49.70 lakh people and tested 49.62 lakh of them. As many as 116961 people have been infected by the virus in Jharkhand so far, and 97.92 per cent of them have recovered, states government data.

As per government figures, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.14 per cent against the national average of 0.15 per cent. It would take 503 days for the cases to double in Jharkhand and 459.86 days for the cases to double across India, the NHM stated in its bulletin.