Over 150 Covid-19 patients tested negative for the virus on Sunday, taking the total number of Covid recoveries in Jharkhand close to 1,12,893, figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
Jharkhand’s recovery rate further improved on the day and reached 97.71 per cent after only 137 fresh cases of infection surfaced against 159 recoveries, a daily bulletin released by the NHM highlighted. The national Covid-19 recovery rate, as per government data, was 96.20 per cent on Friday.
While recoveries outnumbered the number of fresh cases, the Covid toll in the state also increased as one more patient from Gumla died during treatment in 24 hours. As per government data, as many as 1035 people have died of Covid-19 in Jharkhand so far, and at least 218 of them were from Ranchi. The Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 0.89 per cent against the national average of 1.40 per cent.
According to the report in Jharkhand today 3 persons were found infected from Bokaro, 1 from Chatra, 4 from Deoghar, 9 from Dhanbad, 1 from Dumka, 16 from East Singhbhum, 4 from Garhwa, 5 from Gumla, 4 from Hazaribagh, 5 from Jamtara, 2 from Koderma, 2 from Latehar, 2 from Pakur, 4 from Palamu, 1 from Ramgarh, 1 from Sahibganj and 3 from West Singhbhum.
The count of active cases reduced in Ranchi, Dhanbad and Jamtara districts as recoveries outnumbered fresh cases in all the three districts. As many as 70 people were found infected in Ranchi on the day against 84 recoveries, while Dhanbad reported 7 cases against 9 recoveries and Jamtara reported 1 case against 5 recoveries, the NHM bulletin highlighted.
Around 790 people were battling the infection in Ranchi, while 227 were undergoing treatment in East Singhbhum on Friday. So far, the government has collected swab samples of 48.50 lakh people and tested 48.38 lakh of them. Of the over 38 lakh people tested, 1,15,529 were found infected.
On Friday, health workers across Jharkhand tested swab samples of 10, 402 people and less than one per cent of them were found infected. At least 1,601 people were battling the virus across the state by the end of Sunday, government data stated.