Jharkhand logged 151 new cases of Covid-19 on saturday while the number of fatalities rose to 1,034 with four more deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the state health department data showed on Saturday night.

As per the bulletin, 205 people have recovered from the virus on Saturday.

One death each was recorded in Dhanbad, Garhwa, Palamau and Ramgarh.

Among fresh cases Ranchi led the charts with 71 fresh infections. East Singhbhum, Ramgarh and Bokaro reported 20, 15, and 11 cases of coronavirus respectively. A total of seven districts remained free of the virus, while 13 of them got single digit cases in the last one day.

So far, 1,15,392 people got infected by the virus since March last year, while1,12,734 recovered in the state.

The recovery rate in the state 97.69 per cent vis-a-vis 96.10 per cent nationally.

The seven-day growth is 0.14 per cent against the national average of 0.16 per cent, whereas the doubling in the state is 495.68 days compared to the national average of 424 days. The mortality rate is 0.89 percent compared to the national average of 1.40 percent.