At least eight more people, including three in East Singhbhum and one in Ranchi, died of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand on Monday, taking the Covid toll above the 900 mark, figures compiled by the health department stated.
Jharkhand, on an average, reported around one Covid death each day in the past one week. Of the eight casualties reported on Monday, two occurred in Hazaribag and one each in Bokaro and Dhanbad. Three of the remaining four deaths occurred in East Singhbhum and one in Ranchi.
Monday’s findings take the total count of Covid casualties in East Singhbhum to 340, the highest among all the districts in Jharkhand. The Covid toll in Ranchi was 180, while the toll in Dhanbad was 84, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. The total count of Covid casualties in Jharkhand, as per the bulletin, reached 905 on the day.
Meanwhile, the Covid recovery rate jumped above 95 per cent on Monday as 458 patients recovered from the viral infection against 246 fresh cases surfacing in 24 hours. The Covid-19 recovery rate in Jharkhand, as per government data, was 95.07 per cent against the national average of 92.60 per cent.
The number of active cases dropped significantly in Ranchi, which reported 52 fresh cases against 171 recoveries. As per government data, the number of active cases in Ranchi dropped down to 1,293. As many as 48 people were found infected in East Singhbhum on the day, while 39 recovered there. The number of active cases in the district was 1,283. The total number of active cases in Jharkhand, as per government data, stood at 4,251 on Monday.
At least 15 of the 24 districts in the state reported a single-digit-spike in the Covid-19 caseload, while Pakur did not report a single fresh case of infection, highlighted the NHM bulletin released on Monday night.
The Government on Monday tested swab samples of 24,388 people and around 1 per cent of them were found infected. Health workers in Jharkhand have so far collected swab samples of 36.76 lakh people and tested 36.56 lakh of them. Of the 36.56 lakh people tested, 1,04,688 were found infected. At least 99,532 of the Covid patients have recovered so far.
As per government data, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.25 per cent against the national average of 0.49 per cent. The doubling rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 279.60 days against the national doubling rate of 142.55 days.