Jharkhand reported zero casualties related to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, while the count of active cases of Covid-19 infection dropped close to 1,600 in the state. Recoveries outnumbered fresh cases on Saturday, figures compiled by the health department showed.
The state recorded 189 cases of coronavirus on the day, while 273 people recovered, bringing the number of active cases down at 1,610, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission stated.
Ranchi and East Singhbhum were the only two states that had more than 100 cases of coronavirus by the end of Saturday. At least 24 patients recovered in East Singhbhum on the day against 12 fresh cases of infection, bringing the number of active patients in the district down to 171, government data showed.
Despite reporting the highest recoveries among all the districts on Saturday, Ranchi’s active cases still accounted for nearly half of the active cases in Jharkhand. At least 79 fresh cases surfaced here against 89 recoveries, which brought the count of active cases in the district down to 791, the health bulletin showed.
Among other districts, Dhanbad reported 10 cases against 34 recoveries, while Bokaro reported 12 cases against 11 recoveries. At least 15 people were found infected in Palamu and eight patients recovered from the infection there.
The government tested samples of 19,757 people and less than 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, swab samples 44.94 lakh people have been collected while 44.78 of them were tested.
Despite not reporting any new fatality over the past 24 hours, the Covid-19 death toll in Jharkhand has been rising fast. At least 995 patients, 355 of them from East singhbhum, have died in the state, while Ranchi has reported 206 Covid fatalities so far. The Covid fatality rate in Jharkhand was 0.89 per cent against the national average of 1.50 per cent.
As per government data, 1,08,761 people have recovered from Covid-19, out of the 1,11,366 infected with the deadly virus, taking the recovery rate up at 97.66 per cent. The growth rate of the virus, as per the state health department, was 0.14 per cent in Jharkhand against the national average of 0.27 per cent. The doubling rate of cases in the state was 494.21 days against the national average of 258.83 days.
