New COVID-19 cases in the State came down to 151 on the second day of the New Year, figures compiled by the state health department revealed. The number of people declared recovered and discharged from health institutions stood at 205 on the day.
Ranchi district reported at least 71 cases against 105 recoveries, while East Singhbhum district on Saturday reported 20 cases against 22 recoveries. The number of Covid-19 patients reached 804 in Ranchi and 1624 in Jharkhand after Saturday's findings.
Four persons died of COVID-19 on Thursday in the State –the deaths were reported from Dhanbad, garhwa, Palamu and Ramgarh districts, taking the total death toll in the State to 1034.
Apart from Ranchi (71) and East Singhbhum (20), 11 from Bokaro, 1 from Chatra, 6 from Deoghar, 7 from Dhanbad, 1 from Garhwa, 1 from Gumla, 3 from Hazaribagh, 1 from Khunti, 2 from Koderma, 1 from Latehar, 1 from Lohardaga, 6 from Palamu, 15 from Ramgarh, 3 from Saraikela and 1 person from West Singhbhum were found positive on the day.
The government tested swab samples of 12,822 people on the day and more than one per cent of them were found infected. So far, the government has collected swab samples of 48.34 lakh people and tested 48.26 lakh of them. Health workers on Saturday collected swab samples of only 9,726 people.As per government data, the Covid recovery rate in the State was 97.69 per cent against the national average of 96.10 per cent. The growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.14 per cent against the national growth rate of 0.16 per cent. As per figures with the NHM, it would take 495.68 days for the cases to double in Jharkhand. The doubling rate in India was 424.00 days.