The active caseload of Covid-19 dropped below 1,500 in Ranchi and close to the 5,000-mark in Jharkhand on Monday as the State reported at least 726 Covid recoveries against 358 cases of infection in the past 24 hours, figures compiled by the Health Department highlighted.
As many as six Covid patients died during treatment on the day, taking the Covid toll in State to 5060, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. As per the bulletin, Ranchi, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Lohardaga, Hazaribag and Garhwa reported one Covid casualty each.
East Singhbhum reported 51 cases, the highest among the 24 districts in the State on Monday. The district also reported 94 recoveries, which brought the active caseload there down to 601, the NHM stated in its bulletin. On the other hand, at least 80 Covid recoveries against 23 fresh cases brought the active caseload in Ranchi down to 1,489, while one death took the toll to 1573. By the end of Monday, as many as 5312 Jharkhand residents were battling Covid-19.
Other than East Singhbhum, all the remaining 23 districts reported a spike of less than 50 cases on the day. Dhanbad reported 32 cases against 40 recoveries, while 36 people were found infected in Hazaribag and 26 patients recovered there.
With a drop in cases reported every day on an average, the growth rate of infection in Jharkhand dropped to 0.13 per cent against the national average of 0.30 per cent on Monday. The Covid recovery rate in the State, as per Government data, was 96.96 per cent against the national average of 93.90 per cent.
The doubling rate of cases in the State also crossed the 500-day-mark on the day. As per NHM data, it would take 516.62 days for the cases to double in Jharkhand at the current pace. The doubling rate in India was 230.66 days. The Covid mortality rate in the State, however, was 1.48 per cent, higher than the national average of 1.20 per cent.
Jharkhand on Monday tested swab samples of 45,054 residents and less than 1 per cent of them were found infected by coronavirus. As per government data, the State has so far tested more than 88 lakh people for Covid-19 and the cumulative positivity rate in the State was above 3.5 per cent.
The State administered the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to 48.876 residents on the day and almost 32,000 of them were in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years, a separate report from NHM stated. The second jab was administered to 5586 residents, mostly commoners above the age of 45 years, it added.