With the weakening of the second wave of Covid-19, the recovery rate improved to 96.63% while the active cases have come down to 765. In the last 24 hours the city also saw 171 people recover from the virus while it also registered three deaths.
The overall death toll in the East Singhbhum has reached 1032 and the total cases 50441. The city’s positivity rate has also dropped to 1.14 percent.
The positivity rate of Covid-19 cases in Jamshedpur is around 1.14 per cent after East Singhbhum conducted over 8,500 tests in the last 24 hours. The Steel City tested 8,951 samples, of which, 102 turned out positive while 171 people recovered from the Covid-19.
East Singhbhum district administration has conducted 3,56,656 test per million in the district. As per the records of health department out of 8.951 people who underwent Covid tests in East Singhbhum 102 were found positive. Over 8,500 COVID-19 tests, including 2199 RT-PCR and 6,164 RAT were conducted in the last 24 hours in the city. So far in Jamshedpur 9,54,121 samples have been collected out of which 9,49,417 have been tested and 8,98,976 have turned out to be negative.
“The impact of the virus is reducing but we need to be careful. We should celebrate the festival with family and friends but we must avoid crowding. Masks are a must and we must keep a distance of 6 feet. We must adhere to social distance and avoid crowding. If we remain serious about the protocols the virus will further reduce significantly,” noted an official.
He said during the first phase of the pandemic in 2020, in all 843 children were affected with Covid. "But in the second phase which began from March this year, the number of Covid-infected children has gone upto 1,290," said the official.