The Corona death toll in Jharkhand reached 18 on Saturday as three patients — one each from Jamshedpur, Sahibganj and Khunti — died during treatment, health officials said.
At least 33 fresh cases of Covid-19 infection surfaced in the State on Saturday and 34 patients recovered, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
All the deceased patients were suffering from severe comorbid conditions, health officials said. Two of the three casualties — a 55-year-old man from Khunti and a 66-year-old woman from Sahibganj — occured at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi. The third deceased, a 71-year-old man from Sonari in Jamshedpur, died while undergoing treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital there, officials said.
The head of Covid ICU in RIMS, Dr Pradeep Bhattacharya said that the Sahibganj woman suffered from chronic kidney related ailments. “She was refered to RIMS from a private Hospital. She had multiple comorbid conditions, including a chronic kidney disease. She also suffered from diabetes and hypertension,” he said.
The Khunti man, who died on Saturday, was a patient of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and was undergoing treatment at the Covid ICU of RIMS. “He was on a ventilator,” Bhattacharya said.
The deceased from Jamshedpur was suffering from several age related ailments, said Deputy Commissioner of East Singhbhum Ravi Shankar Shukla.
Covid-19 virus has claimed as many as 18 lives in Jharkhand so far, says government data. Out of the 14 Covid deaths in the state, four were reported from Ranchi, two each from Bokaro, Sahibganj and Giridih, three from Hazaribag, and one each from Gumla, Simdega, East Singhbhum and Koderma, health officials said. All the victims were said to have comorbid conditions that aggravated due to Covid-19 virus.
As per figures with the National Health Mission (NHM), the government has tested around 1.5 lakh people for Covid-19 in Jharkhand so far, and more than 2700 of them have tested positive.
According to NHM, the Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand is 0.65 per cent, against the national average of 2.88 per cent. The recovery rate in the state is also better than the national average, the NHM bulletin said. The recovery rate in Jharkhand is 74.29 per cent, against the national recovery rate of 60.81 per cent. Jharkhand’s Covid recovery rate, officials said, was one of the best in the country.