Over 250 Covid-19 patients tested negative for the virus on Tuesday, taking the total number of Covid recoveries in Jharkhand close to 1,13,380, figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
Jharkhand’s recovery rate further improved on the day and reached 97.87 per cent after only 151 fresh cases of infection surfaced against 255 recoveries, a daily bulletin released by the NHM highlighted. The national Covid-19 recovery rate, as per government data, was 96.30 per cent on Tuesday.
While recoveries outnumbered the number of fresh cases, the Covid toll in the state also increased as two more patients from Ranchi and Hazaribag died during treatment in 24 hours. As per government data, as many as 1038 people have died of Covid-19 in Jharkhand so far, and at least 219 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 14 persons were found infected from Bokaro, 2 from Deoghar, 17 from Dhanbad, 1 from Dumka, 12 from East Singhbhum, 3 from Garhwa, 3 from Giridih, 4 from Gumla, 2 from Hazaribagh, 2 from Jamtara, 3 from Khunti, 5 from Koderma, 9 from Latehar, 1 from Lohardaga, 16 from Palamu, 2 from Ramgarh, 47 from Ranchi, 3 from Seraikela, 1 from Simdega and 4 from West Singhbhum.
Around 658 people were battling the infection in Ranchi, while 180 were undergoing treatment in East Singhbhum on Tuesday. So far, the government has collected swab samples of 48.76 lakh people and tested 48.67 lakh of them. Of the over 48 lakh people tested, 1,15,840 were found infected.
On Tuesday, health workers across Jharkhand tested swab samples of 13,114 people and less than one per cent of them were found infected. At least 1,422 people were battling the virus across the State by the end of Tuesday, Government data stated.