About twice as many Covid recoveries as fresh cases of infection brought the active caseload of Covid-19 in Jharkhand below 1500 on Monday, while one patient, a resident of Hazaribag, died in the state, taking the Covid toll to 5100, figures released by the state health department highlighted.

Jharkhand on Monday reported 122 fresh cases of Coronavirus infection against 228 Covid recoveries which brought the active caseload to 1489, a bulletin from the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.

At least three districts – Lohardaga, Pakur and Koderma – did not report fresh Covid cases on the day, while the active caseload in Ranchi, the worst-affected district in Jharkhand, dropped to 475 as at least 20 patients recovered here against six fresh cases of Covid-19.

None of the 24 districts in the state reported a spike of more than 20 cases. East Singhbhum reporting a spike of 16 cases, the highest among the districts, the NHM stated in its bulletin. At least 24 recoveries against the 16 fresh cases brought the active caseload in East Singhbhum down to 167, the second highest among Jharkhand districts.

As per NHM data, at least 14 districts, including Dhanbad, Bokaro and Dhanbad, reported a single-digit-spike in Covid cases on the day. The state on Monday tested swab samples of 50,725 residents and around 0.3 per cent of them were found infected by coronavirus. As per government data, over 3.44 lakh people have contracted Covid-19 in Jharkhand so far and 98.08 per cent of them have recovered from the disease. However, 1.47 per cent of the patients could not survive.

The growth rate of infection in Jharkhand, as per NHM data, was 0.04 per cent against the national average of 0.15 per cent. The doubling rate of cases in the state jumped to 1915.37 days against the national doubling rate of 478.33 days.

The state also reported one fresh case of Covid-induced Mucormycosis in the past 48 hours, which took the total number of Mucormycosis cases in Jharkhand to 135. As per government data, as many as 82 of these cases were confirmed and 53 were suspected. The state, however, did not report casualties due to black fungus on the day, keeping the toll in the state to 26. So far, 53 Mucormycosis patients have recovered from the fungal infection in Jharkhand.

Jharkhand administered the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to 79,308 residents, while the second jab was administered to 17,624 beneficiaries, a separate report from NHM stated. Over 60,000 of the residents who received their first jab on Monday were younger than 45 years.