As many as 214 Covid-19 patients recovered from the infection on Monday, while 179 people were found to be infected, figures compiled by the state health department highlighted. Monday’s test results brought the number of active cases of Covid-19 infections down at 1,795.

Ranchi reported 79 fresh cases of infection against 72 recoveries, while East SInghbhum reported 25 cases against 17 recoveries in the past 24 hours, the NHM bulletin highlighted. Besides these two districts, only Dhanbad and Bokaro reported a double-digit-spike in Covid cases. At least 13 people were found infected in Bokaro and 10 in Dhanbad.

After Monday’s test results, the number of active cases in Ranchi reached 757, while the number of active cases in East Singhbhum rose to 276. These two districts account for more than 60 per cent of the active cases in Jharkhand. Barring these two districts, all the remaining 22 districts had less than 100 active cases of Covid-19 infection.

Meanwhile, two more Covid patients, one each from East Singhbhum and Dhanbad, died during treatment on the day, taking the Covid-19 toll in the state up at 988, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.

At least five of the 24 districts in Jharkhand did not report even a single case of Covid-19 infection on the day, the NHM bulletin revealed. However, barring Khunti, all other districts reported Covid-19 recoveries on the day.

The government on Monday tested swab samples of 17,057 people and around 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, health workers have collected swab samples of 43.74 lakh people and tested 43.59 lakh of them. Around 19,000 swab samples were still pending for tests.

Of the 1,07,710 people infected by the virus so far in Jharkhand, at least 1,10,457 have recovered, taking the recovery rate in the state up at 97.51 per cent. The Covid mortality rate of the state has increased marginally to reach 0.91 per cent, but it is still lower than the national average of 1.50 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. The doubling rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 473.96 days against the national doubling rate of 216.52 days.