Jharkhand's Pakur district along Bengal borders, on Sunday, registered two new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, weeks after turning zero and successfully maintaining status quo till now.

As per the health department bulletin last night, fresh cases also continued to surge in Ranchi with 70 more testing positive out of 137 across the state in the last 24 hours. State also reported one death from Gumla whereas 159 people have recovered during the same period.

East Singhbhum remained another district with double-digit spike getting 16 new cases, while six districts, including Giridih, Godda, Khunti, Lohardaga, Saraikela and Simdega didn't get any cases and the rest reported single-digit spike.

Out of 1601 total active cases in the state, 770 exist in Ranchi alone. The state's total cumulative caseload of infections now stands at 1,15,529 of which 1,12,893 recovered since the outbreak of the virus in March last year. Also, 1035 died since then, with East Singhbhum registering maximum fatalities of 335 so far.

The recovery rate in the state now stands at 97.71 per cent compared to 96.20 per cent nationally. The seven-day growth rate is 0.14 per cent against the national average of 0.16 per cent. The doubling rate is 503.02 days compared to the national rate of 429.77 days while the mortality rate is 0.89 per cent than that of 1.40 per cent in the country.