Jharkhand on Tuesday witnessed the highest ever single-day-spike in cases of Covid-19 infection with fresh cases crossing the century mark for the first time in state capital Ranchi within 24 hours, health officials said.

As per government data, as many as 374 fresh cases of Covid-19 infection surfaced in the state on Tuesday of which 106 were from Ranchi. The highest single-day-spike in Covid cases till Tuesday was reported on July 15 when 314 people tested positive for the virus.

The unprecedented increase in Covid cases in Ranchi has become a cause for concern for the health department and the district administration as the capital is the centre for most economic activities in the state and also among the most populated cities of Jharkhand, sources said.

The total count of Covid-19 cases in Ranchi stood at 830 on Tuesday, only second to Jamshedpur, which has 938 cases.

At least six more Covid patients breathed their last in Jharkhand on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 61, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. East Singhbhum and Saraikela reported two deaths each while Ranchi reported one.

Tuesday's findings take the total count of Covid-19 cases in the state to 6,195 and number of active cases to 3,192, NHM bulletin stated. As many as 107 Covid patients recovered on Tuesday, taking the count of recoveries in Jharkhand to 2,942.

Meanwhile, state drinking water and sanitation minister Mithilesh Thakur, who had tested positive for Covid on July 9, recovered from the infection on Tuesday and was discharged from the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), doctors said.

State's Covid mortality rate rose to 0.98 per cent on Tuesday while recovery rate dropped to 47.48 per cent, NHM figures highlighted. Around 2.5 lakh people have been put in home quarantine across Jharkhand and nearly 7,000 have been sent to institutional quarantine.

The government has so far collected samples of 2.4 lakh suspects and tested 2.3 lakh of them.