The Covid toll in Ranchi breached the 1,000-mark on Tuesday as the district reported 33 of the 132 Covid fatalities that occurred in the state during the past 24 hours, figures compiled by the health department revealed. Ranchi is the only Jharkhand district to have reported more than 1,000 deaths since the entry of the virus in the state back in March 2020.

Even though the margin between fresh cases and Covid recoveries narrowed, which led to the addition of fewer patients to the active caseload in the state, Covid casualties continued to haunt the residents of Jharkhand. As per government data, the state has been reporting more than 100 Covid fatalities daily for more than a week now.

A bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated that as many as 5,974 Jharkhand residents tested positive on Tuesday while 5,810 Covid patients recovered. The active caseload reached 59,707 after the day’s findings.

The 132 deaths on the day took the toll up to 3,205 in Jharkhand and 1,010 in Ranchi alone, the NHM stated in its bulletin.

At least 32 died in East Singhbhum as well, taking the toll there to 699, the second-highest among the 24 districts in Jharkhand. As many as 10 Covid patients passed away in Bokaro during treatment on the day, while eight patients died in Ramgarh.

While casualties continued to rise in Ranchi, the district reported a drop in the active caseload after the trajectory of Covid patients seeing an upward trend here every day since April. The district reported 1,165 cases against 1,300 recoveries, bringing the active caseload here down to 19,898, government data highlighted.

East Singhbhum also reported a spike of over 1,000 cases on the day. As many as 1,070 patients were found infected in the district, taking the active caseload to 5,765. The district reported 996 Covid recoveries on the day.

Among other districts, Bokaro reported a spike of 405 cases, while at least 535 people were found infected in Hazaribag. At least 316 Ramgarh residents also tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, while Koderma reported a spike of 267 in the Covid tally.

As per government data, the growth rate of cases dropped to 2.17 per cent on the day but remained higher than the national average of 1.45 per cent. Jharkhand on Tuesday tested swab samples of 36,209 residents and more than 13 per cent of them were found infected. The doubling rate, however, improved and reached 32.33 days against the national average of 48.03 days on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the state administered the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to 6583 beneficiaries, while the second jab was administered to 10,229 residents.