Jharkhand witnessed 1,478 fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours on Friday afternoon taking the total active cases to 13,924 in the State. The highest number of new cases 492 surfaced from Ranchi district, while East Singhbhum remained on second place with 324 fresh cases, according to the health department.
As per the Covid bulletin issued by the Government on Friday evening 492 cases were from Ranchi, 4 from Chatra, 29 from Deoghar, 62 from Dhanbad, 10 from Dumka, 324 from East Singhbhum, 16 from Garhwa, 11 from Giridih, 5 from Godda, 17 from Gumla, 38 from Hazaribagh, 51 from Jamtara, 15 from Khunti, 21 from Koderma, 26 from Latehar, 40 from Lohardaga, 2 from Pakur, 64 from Palamu, 42 from Ramgarh, 44 from Sahibganj, 41 from Seraikela, 17 from Simdega and 107 cases were from West Singhbhum district.
Friday’s statistics brought the Covid tally in the State close to 70,000 mark with 68,578 people being infected in the State with Coronavirus ever since a Malaysian woman was detected as the first Covid-19 patient in the end of March this year in Ranchi. However, 54,052 people have recovered from the disease.
Six people lost their lives owing to Covid-19 in the State on Friday taking the total death toll to 602, said the health bulletin.
Meanwhile, a special testing campaign was conducted on 16 and 18 September for the Covid-19 in Ranchi district. During this time centers were established for sample collections in different places of the district. In this special testing campaign lasting two days, samples of 9143 people were taken, of which 9120 samples were examined. After the investigation, the investigation report of 313 people was positive while the report of 8807 people came negative.
Samples of 4039 people was tested on 16 September, while a rapid antigen special test drive was conducted on 18 September and samples of 5102 people were collected, of which 5081 were sampled, with 146 positive and 4935 negative reports.
On September 16, 4039 people were screened during the Covid-19 special investigation operation. On this day, 4041 samples were collected for examination. Of which 167 people reported positive and 3,872 reported negative.