Covid-19 fresh cases and daily deaths touched a new high in State on Friday as 3,843 new Covid patients were found in Jharkhand in last 24 hours and mmimum of 56 persons lost their lives battling the disease on Friday.
The Covid tally in Jharkhand crossed the 1.51 lakh mark, while the active caseload jumped above 23,000 on Thursday as the State reported close to 3,900 Covid cases in 24 hours, figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted.
The 56 deaths reported on Friday took the Covid toll in the state to 1376. As per a bulletin released by the NHM, at least four of the 56 Covid victims were Dhanbad residents, while 16 deceased were from Ranchi. East Singhbhum reported 13 deaths on the day and Bokaro reported four.
Ranchi continued to report the highest share of Covid cases among the 24 districts on Friday as well. As per NHM data, as many as 1,372 fresh cases in the district took the active caseload here to 9,416. Ranchi accounts for around 40 per cent of the 23,045 active cases in the State.
Meanwhile, East Singhbhum also reported 709 cases against 171 recoveries on the day. The active caseload there reached 3,038 on the day.
The Government on Friday tested swab samples of 33,062 Jharkhand residents and over 10 per cent of them were found infected.
So far, as many as 1,55,115 people have been infected by the mysterious virus in Jharkhand and 85.47 per cent of them have recovered, reveals Government data.
In the past couple of weeks, the growth rate of infection has seen a spike while the doubling rate has dropped in Jharkhand.
On Thursday, the growth rate of infection in Jharkhand was 1.78 per cent against the national average of 0.96 per cent. The doubling rate in the state was 39.27 days against the national doubling rate of 72.17 days.
Meanwhile, the State on Friday administered the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to as many as 29,483 people, about 41 per cent of those registered. The second dose was administered to as many as 6,816 people, only 3 per cent of the over 2.93 lakh registered for the jab on the day.