At least 38 new cases of Covid-19 infection surfaced in the State on Wednesday, taking the total count of Coronavirus infected patients here to 764, health officials said. The cases were reported from 11 districts – Simdega, Palamu, Latehar, Koderma, Ramgarh, Ranchi, Bokaro, Saraikela, East Singhbhum and Gumla, officials added.
Almost all the Covid-19 suspects who tested positive on Wednesday returned from other States, officials from the National Health Mission (NHM) said. Most of the positive cases reported on Wednesday had travel history to Mumbai – one of the worst Covid-19 affected cities in India, they added.
As per a bulletin issued by the NHM on Wednesday late evening, at least 546 of the total Covid-19 cases reported in Jharkhand so far are migrant workers. There are as many as 438 active cases in the State and 321 patients have recovered, the bulletin further said.
The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients here, however, dropped on Wednesday as only one patient won his battle against the virus. In the past one week, at least 10 patients have recovered from the infection every day, figures compiled by the NHM say.
More than half of the 760 odd people infected by COVID-19 virus so far in Jharkhand are in the age bracket of 11 to 30 years – a trend that highlights how young people were as prone to the virus as their older counterparts, health officials said. Out of the 764 cases, 459 are in the age bracket of 11 to 30 years and 237 in rhe age bracket of 31 to 50 years, the NHM bulletin said. According to NHM, more than 70 per cent of the COVID-19 cases reported in Jharkhand are migrant workers. At least 4 lakh migrants have returned to Jharkhand since the lockdown was imposed across the country in March, health officials said.
The Government has so far collected samples of 87,190 Covid-19 suspects from across the State, and more than 760 of them have tested positive. At least 73,735 of the 97,000 odd samples collected have been tested so far, the NHM report said.