The Covid-19 tally in Jharkhand crossed the 1 lakh mark on Tuesday after as many as 318 people, including 127 from Ranchi alone, were found to be infected in 24 hours, figures released by the health department stated.

As per figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM), as many as 1,00,224 people have been infected by the lethal virus in Jharkhand so far, and more than 25,000 of them were from Ranchi.

However, the number of active cases of Covid-19 infection continued to decline in the state on Tuesday after at least 506 Covid patients recovered against the 300-odd fresh cases surfacing on the day. As per figures with NHM, at least 5,474 of the 1-lakh-odd people infected by the virus so far were still battling the viral infection in Jharkhand.

Meanwhile, four more Covid-19 patients died during treatment on Tuesday, taking the toll in Jharkhand to 876. Bokaro, Dhanbad, East Singhbhum and Ranchi reported one death each on the day.

While the number of Covid casualties has been on the rise in Jharkhand, the state’s recovery rate too has improved significantly. The Covid-19 recovery rate in the state reached 93.66 per cent on Tuesday against the national Covid recovery rate of 90.60 per cent. As many as 93,974 Covid patients recovered from the infection by Tuesday night in Jharkhand, government data highlighted.

Ranchi, which reported the highest number of fresh cases of infection on Tuesday, also saw the highest number of Covid-19 recoveries after 179 patients recovered in the district on Tuesday, bringing the count of active cases down at 1,778, which is the highest among all the 24 districts in Jharkhand.

East Singhbhum reported only 43 cases of infection on the day, which was the second highest among all districts in Jharkhand. The count of active cases in this district reached 1,310, reveals government data. Bokaro reported 28 cases, while Pakur and Deoghar districts reported 21 and 18 cases respectively.

The government in Jharkhand has so far collected swab samples of 31.67 lakh people for Covid-19 tests and tested around 31.52 lakh of them. On Tuesday, health workers tested swab samples of 22,162 people and 21,844 of them tested negative for the virus.

As per government figures, the doubling rate of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand was 160.23 days against the national average of 118.61 days. The growth rate of the virus in the state in the past one week was 0.41 per cent against the national growth rate of 0.59 per cent.