While Covid-19 casualties continued to haunt Jharkhand on Monday, the recovery rate further improved as the state reported more than twice as many recoveries as fresh cases of infection in the past 24 hours and four districts did not report even a single fresh case of Covid-19 infection, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.

At least four more Covid-19 patients, including two from Ranchi, died during treatment on Monday, taking the Covid toll in Jharkhand to 928, a daily Covid-19 bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. Dhanbad and Dumka reported one death each, while two casualties in Ranchi took the Covid-19 toll in the district alone to 187, government figures revealed.

Jharkhand, as per the NHM bulletin released on Monday night, reported 360 recoveries against 166 fresh cases on the day, taking the recovery rate up at 96.53 per cent. The state’s Covid recovery rate was higher than the national average of 93.20 per cent, the bulletin further stated.

With 56 fresh cases, Ranchi was the highest contributor to the Covid-19 caseload on Monday, while East Singhbhum and Dhanbad reported only 32 and 12 fresh cases of infection respectively. At least 118 people recovered from Covid-19 infection in Ranchi on the day, the highest among all the 24 districts. As many as 54 Covid patients recovered in East Singhbhum while 46 recovered in Dhanbad, government data highlighted.

While none of the districts in Jharkhand reported a triple-digit-spike in Covid-19 cases, less than 10 fresh cases surfaced in at least 19 districts. As per the NHM bulletin, Simdega, Sahebganj, Pakur and Hazaribag did not report even a single case of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours.

The number of active cases was less than 100 in at least 18 districts, including Chatra, Deoghar and Ramgarh. As per government data, at least 912 people were battling the infection in Ranchi, the highest among all the districts in Jharkhand. There were as many as 513 active cases of infection in East Singhbhum, the second highest in Jharkhand.

The government on Monday tested swab samples of 14,461 people and around 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, health workers in Jharkhand have collected swab samples of 38.26 lakh people and tested 38.07 lakh of them. As many as 1,06,230 people have been infected by the Covid-19 virus in Jharkhand so far and 1,02,548 of them have recovered.

As per government data, the growth rate of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand was 0.17 per cent against the national average of 0.42 per cent. The doubling rate of the virus in the state was 397.12 days against the national average of 167.07 days. The Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 0.87 per cent against the national mortality rate of 1.50 per cent, the NHM bulletin stated.