Over 200 Covid-19 patients tested negative for the virus on Saturday, taking the total number of Covid recoveries in Jharkhand close to 1,05,669 figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
Jharkhand’s recovery rate further improved on the day and reached 97.13 per cent after only 209 fresh cases of infection surfaced against 216 recoveries, a daily bulletin released by the NHM highlighted. The national Covid-19 recovery rate, as per government data, was 93.70 per cent on Saturday.
While recoveries outnumbered the number of fresh cases, the Covid toll in the state also increased as one more patient from Ranchi died during treatment in 24 hours. As per government data, as many as 963 people have died of Covid-19 in Jharkhand so far, and at least 194 of them were from Ranchi. The Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 0.88 per cent against the national average of 1.50 per cent.
The count of active cases reduced in Ranchi, East Singhbhum and Jamtara districts as recoveries outnumbered fresh cases in all the three districts. As many as 50 people were found infected in Ranchi on the day against 55 recoveries, while East Singhbhum reported 43 cases against 31 recoveries and Dhanbad reported 26 cases against 32 recoveries, the NHM bulletin highlighted.
Around 774 people were battling the infection in Ranchi, while 313 were undergoing treatment in East Singhbhum on Friday. So far, the government has collected swab samples of 40.5 lakh people and tested 40.38 lakh of them. Of the over 40 lakh people tested, 1,08,786 were found infected.
As per the NHM bulletin 24 fresh cases surfaced on Saturday from from Bokaro, 11 from Deoghar, 26 from Dhanbad, 1 from Dumka, 43 from East Singhbhum, 4 from Garhwa, 2 from Giridih, 3 from Godda, 9 from Hazaribagh, 8 from Jamtara, 2 from Khunti, 5 from Latehar, Lohardaga 6 from Palamu, 2 from Ramgarh, 2 from Sahibganj, 1 from Saraikela, 1 from Simdega and 5 from West Singhbhum district.
On Saturday, health workers across Jharkhand tested swab samples of 32,389 people and around 0.6 per cent of them were found infected. At least 2154 people were battling the virus across the state by the end of Saturday, government data stated.