Active cases and death toll surged further in the state on Wednesday with 233 new infections and two fatalities reported in the last 24 hours while 185 were declared cured, state health department’s Covid-19 bulletin has stated on Wednesday.

Both the latest deaths were reported in Ranchi while it got 87 new cases out of state’s total caseload in last one day. Ranchi’s active cases are 769, highest across the state. Of 30,448 who tested positive in Ranchi since March, 29,462 recovered and 217 have died. Out of seven fatalities in the state in the past 48 hours, five emerged from Ranchi alone.

On the other hand, East Singbhum, Bokaro, Dhanbad, and Hazaribag witnessed 40, 20, 18 and 13 new cases respectively.

The state currently has 1640 active cases out of 1,14,873 who tested positive since the virus outbreak. The recovery figures stand at 1,12,206 and 1027 deaths.

While Pakur district continues to remain free of infection out of the 24 districts, three others — Giridih, Godda and Khunti have active cases less than 10.

State’s seven-day growth rate currently is 0.14% vis-à-vis 0.17% nationally while seven days doubling rate is 510.32 days that of 407.37 in the country. Recovery rate is 97.67% compared to the national average 96%, and the mortality rate stands at 0.89% in respect to 1.40% nationally.