The number of active cases of Covid-19 infection jumped further up in Ranchi on Saturday as the district reported 125 fresh cases against only 98 recoveries in the past 24 hours, figures compiled by the health department revealed.
Ranchi accounted for more than 50 per cent of the 236 Covid-19 cases that surfaced in Jharkhand on the day, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. Another Covid-19 patient died in the district on the day, taking the Covid toll here up at 223.
Jharkhand reported two Covid fatalities on the day, and the second death occured in Dumka, taking the total number of Covid casualties in the state to 1045, the NHM bulletin highlighted.
Barring Ranchi, no other district reported a triple-digit-spike in cases on the day. East Singhbhum reported 30 cases against 32 recoveries, while Dhanbad reported 21 cases against 20 recoveries in the past 24 hours. The remaining 21 districts either reported a single-digit-spike or did not report any fresh case of Covid-19 infection.
As per government data, at least seven districts did not report even a single case of Covid-19 infection. The NHM bulletin put the number of active cases in Ranchi at 733 and that in East Singhbhum to 163. As per the bulletin, as many as 1494 people were battling the infection across Jharkhand by the end of Saturday.
The government on Saturday tested swab samples of 13790 people and more than 1.5 per cent of them were found infected. So far, health workers have collected swab samples of 49.43 lakh people and tested 49.31 lakh of them.
As per government data, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.14 per cent against the national average of 0.15 per cent. The doubling rate of infection in the state was 492.84 days against the national doubling rate of 466.71 days. The Covid-19 recovery rate in Jharkhand was 97.82 per cent, which is higher than the national average of 96.40 per cent.