Jharkhand achieved its highest one-day Covid-19 recovery figure on Saturday after 131 infected patients were discharged from hospitals in a span of 24 hours, health officials said.

“This is the best recovery figure that we have achieved in a day so far,” said state health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni.

According to figures released by the National Health Mission (NHM), at least 816 Covid patients have recovered in Jharkhand so far. The state's death toll stands at eight, while the number of active cases, as per NHM data, was 887 at 10pm on Saturday.

Out of the 131 patients who were discharged from hospitals on Saturday, 38 were from Ramgarh, 36 from Simdega, 14 from Hazaribagh, 29 from Dhanbad and four from Chatra, NHM said in its COVID-19 bulletin released late on Saturday evening.

The total count of Covid-19 cases in the state shot up to 1,711 as 54 fresh cases of the viral infection surfaced from eight districts on Saturday, health officials said.

At least 35 cases were reported from Koderma. Besides Koderma, cases were reported from Chatra, Garhwa, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Saraikela, Ranchi and Ramgarh, officials added.

The count of migrants testing positive for Covid-19 also shot up on Saturday. At least 1,396 of the 1,700-odd Covid-19 cases reported to far in the State are that of migrants, the NHM said. This means that migrants account for around 80 per cent of total Covid cases reported in the State so far.

According to NHM, nearly three lakh people were put in home quarantine across the state and around 50,000 were sent to government quarantine centres. Jharkhand's Covid-19 recovery rate was 47.69 per cent, while the mortality rate was 0.46 per cent, the NHM bulletin said.

The government has so far collected samples of 10,6,171 people suspected to have contracted the virus from across the state, and more than 1,700 of them have tested positive. At least 10,2,194 of the 1,00,000-odd samples collected have been tested so far, the NHM bulletin said.