While Jharkhand reported less than 100 fresh cases of Covid-19 infection on Sunday, the Covid toll in the state shot up to 986 as at least seven more patients lost their battle against the lethal virus in the past 24 hours, figures compiled by the state health department revealed.
While Dhanbad reported two of the seven deaths on the day, Ranchi, Garwah, Palamu, East Singhbhum and Dumka reported one Covid casualty each. However, barring Ranchi and East Singhbhum, all the remaining 22 districts have reported fewer Covid casualties than 100, highlights government data.
The Covid-19 mortality rate of the state also shot up at 0.91 per cent on Sunday from 0.88 per cent on Saturday owing to more than half a dozen deaths in the past 24 hours. The national Covid-19 mortality rate was, however, much higher at 1.50 per cent, highlighted the NHM bulletin.
Only 92 cases, including 37 from Ranchi alone, surfaced on the day, while as many as 134 Covid patients recovered from the infection, highlighted a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM). The number of active cases of infection dropped down to 1796 after Sunday’s test results were out.
As per the NHM bulletin released on Sunday night, at least 10 of 24 districts in Jharkhand did not report even a single fresh case of Covid-19 on the day. While East Singhbhum reported 10 cases, only five fresh cases surfaced in Dhanbad. No other district reported a double-digit-spike in the Covid cases.
The number of active cases of infection increased marginally in Ranchi, while it dropped in East Singhbhum as the two districts reported 30 and 27 recoveries respectively.
On Sunday, the government tested swab samples of 16,121 people and less than 1 per cent of them were found to be infected. The state, however, still has around 20,000 swab samples pending for tests. So far, health workers in Jharkhand have collected swab samples of 43.56 lakh people and tested around 43.36 lakh of them.
At least 1,07,496 of the 1,10,278 people infected by the virus so far have recovered, taking Jharkhand’s Covid recovery rate to 97.47 per cent against the national average of 94.40 per cent.
As per government data, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.15 per cent against the national average of 0.32 per cent. It took 472.34 days for doubling of Covid cases in the state ag
