COVID-19 cases in the State once again crossed 200 mark on Tuesday with 230 people found to be infected on the day, figures compiled by the state health department revealed. The number of people declared recovered and discharged from health institutions stood at 203 on the day.
Ranchi district reported at least 107 cases against 89 recoveries, while East Singhbhum district on Saturday reported 26 cases against 23 recoveries. The number of Covid-19 patients reached 797 in Ranchi and 1604 in Jharkhand after Tuesday's findings.
Five persons died of COVID-19 on Tuesday in the State, out of which one death was reported from Dhanbad district, on efrom Hazaribag and three from Ranchi district taking the total death toll in the State to 1025.
Apart from Ranchi (107) and East Singhbhum (26), Bokaro reported 15 cases, while Chatra (5), Dhanbad (25), Godda (4), Gumla (3), Hazaribag (7), Khunti (1) (2), Latehar (11), Lohardaga (1), Palamu (10), Ramgarh (5), Sahebganj (1), Simdega (3), Seraikela (1) and West Singhbhum (5) reported the new cases.
The government tested swab samples of 13,957 people on the day and more than one per cent of them were found infected. So far, the government has collected swab samples of 47.75 lakh people and tested 47.76 lakh of them. Health workers on Saturday collected swab samples of only 13,112 people.
As per government data, the Covid recovery rate in the State was 97.70 per cent against the national average of 95.90 per cent. The growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.13 per cent against the national growth rate of 0.18 per cent. As per figures with the NHM, it would take 531.94 days for the cases to double in Jharkhand. The doubling rate in India was 392.91 days.