While the count of active cases of Covid-19 infection dropped close to 1,600 in Jharkhand as recoveries outnumbered fresh cases on Saturday, the Covid-19 toll in the State remained unchanged as no Covid casualties were reported in the past 24 hours, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.
As many as 189 cases of infection surfaced in Jharkhand on the day, while 273 patients recovered, bringing the number of active cases down at 1610, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
Despite reporting the highest recoveries among all the districts on Saturday, Ranchi’s active cases still accounted for nearly half of the cases in Jharkhand. At least 79 fresh cases surfaced here against 89 recoveries, which brought the count of active cases in the district down at 791, the NHM bulletin highlighted.
Only two districts — Ranchi and East Singhbhum — had more than 100 active cases of infection by the end of Saturday. As per government data, 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.
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, revealed government data.
Although Jharkhand did not report any Covid fatality on Saturday, the Covid-19 toll in the state has been rising fast. So far, at least 995 Covid patients have died in Jharkhand and 355 of them were from East Singhbhum. Ranchi, as per figures with the health department, 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.
The government on Saturday tested swab samples of 19,757 people and less than 1 per cent of them were found infected. So far, health workers in the state have collected swab samples of 44.94 lakh people and tested around 44.78 lakh of them. Around 16,000 swab samples were pending for tests.
As per government data, of the 111366 people infected by the deadly virus in the state, at least 1,08,761 have recovered, taking the Covid 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.