While at least 188 recoveries against 182 fresh cases of Covid-19 infection caused a marginal drop in the number of active Covid cases in Jharkhand on Tuesday, Ranchi witnessed a spike in the active caseload as fresh cases of infection outnumbered recoveries here, figures compiled by the state health department highlighted.

Among the 24 districts in Jharkhand, Ranchi alone accounts for nearly 45 per cent of the 1,753 active cases of Covid-19 in the state, government figures reveal.

As per a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM), Ranchi reported 67 fresh cases of Covid-19 infection, the highest in Jharkhand on the day. Meanwhile, as many as 56 Covid patients recovered from the infection here, taking the number of active cases in the district up at 768, the bulletin further stated.

While the active cases dropped, the death toll remained unchanged on Tuesday. As per government data, Jharkhand did not report any Covid-19 casualty on the day. So far, as many as 988 people of died of Covid-19 in Jharkhand, and 355 of them were from East Singhbhum. Ranchi, on the other hand, has reported 203 Covid fatalities so far.

At least four Jharkhand districts did not report even a single fresh case of Covid-19 infection on the day. Among other districts, Bokaro reported 14 cases against 13 recoveries, while Deoghar reported 14 cases against four recoveries. Meanwhile, the number of active cases dropped below 10 in Godda and Giridih districts on the day.

Active cases dropped in East Singhbhum as well as Dhanbad on the day. At least 19 cases surfaced in East Singhbhum against 34 recoveries, while Dhanbad reported 15 cases against 19 recoveries.

The government on Tuesday tested swab samples of 23,107 people and less than 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, the state has collected swab samples of 44.01 lakh people and tested 43.82 lakh of them. Around 19,000 swab samples were still pending for tests.

The latest figures released by the government put the Covid-19 tally in Jharkhand at 1,10,639, while the total number of recoveries in the state was 1,07,898. The Covid-19 recovery rate in Jharkhand was 97.52 per cent against the national average of 94.60 per cent, the NHM bulletin stated.

As per government data, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.14 per cent against the national average of 0.30 per cent. The doubling rate of the infection was 487.35 days in Jharkhand against the national doubling rate of 228.13 days. Jharkhand’s Covid fatality rate was 0.89 per cent against the national average of 1.50 per cent.