The Jharkhand government on Sunday tested swab samples of over 93,000 people for Covid-19 and as many as 198 of them, roughly 0.21 per cent, were found infected, figures compiled by the health department stated, highlighting how intensifying Covid testing did not trigger a major spike in the Covid caseload in Jharkhand.

However, despite the rise in testing rate, around 18,000 swam samples were still pending for Covid test by Sunday evening, revealed government data. On average, the government tested around 15,000 people every day for Covid-19 in the past week, and less than 300 cases surfaced daily.

While at least five of 24 districts in Jharkhand did not report even a single fresh case of Covid-19 on Sunday, as many as 14 districts reported a single-digit-spike in Covid cases. By the end of Sunday, there were 773 active cases in Ranchi and 307 active cases in East Singhbhum, two of the worst-affected districts in the state.

Ranchi and East Singhbhum accounted for more than half of the Covid-19 cases that surfaced in Jharkhand on Sunday. While 69 people were found infected in Ranchi, 29 fresh cases of infection surfaced in East Singhbhum. However, the number of active cases of Covid-19 infection dropped in East Singhbhum and rose marginally in Ranchi. East Singhbhum reported 47 recoveries while 56 patients recovered in Ranchi in the past 24 hours.

At least 214 Covid patients recovered from the infection across Jharkhand on Sunday, bringing the count of active cases in the state down at 2,138 and the recovery rate up at 97.15 per cent.

Jharkhand did not report even a single Covid casualty on Sunday, stated a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM). So far, 963 people have died of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand and 351 of them were from East Singhbhum. Ranchi has reported 195 Covid casualties so far.

The government has so far collected swab samples of 41.52 lakh people and tested 41.34 lakh of them. Of the over 41 lakh people tested, as many as 1,08,984 were found to be Covid positive. However, at least 1,05,883 of patients have recovered in the state so far.

The growth rate of Covid-19 in Jharkhand was 0.17 per cent against the national average of 0.39 per cent. The doubling rate of the virus in the state was 405.58 days against the national average of 177.89 days. The Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 0.88 per cent against the national Covid mortality rate of 1.50 per cent.