The active caseload of Covid-19 dropped below the 2,000-mark in Jharkhand on Thursday, while three more patients died, taking the Covid toll in the State to 5,095, figures released by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted.
As per a bulletin from the NHM, at least 146 people tested positive for Covid-19 on the day while 443 patients recovered from the infection, bringing the active caseload in the state down to 1,946.
No Jharkhand district reported a spike of more than 20 cases on Thursday. With 19 fresh cases, Dhanbad reported the highest spike on the day. However, at least 25 patients recovered there, bringing the active caseload down to 119 in the district.
At least two districts — Pakur and Dumka — did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 for the second day in a row on Thursday. As per NHM data, there were only two Covid patients in Pakur by the end of Thursday.
Bokaro accounted for two of the three Covid casualties on the day, one patient died during treatment in Ranchi. As per Government records, at least 1,583 people have died of Covid-19 in Ranchi, while the toll in Bokaro was 276. The Covid mortality rate in the State was 1.48 per cent on Thursday, higher than the national average of 1.30 per cent, the NHM stated in its bulletin.
As many as 35 Covid recoveries against 14 cases brought the active caseload in East Singhbhum down to 223, the bulletin from NHM highlighted. Ranchi, the district with highest number of active cases in Jharkhand, reported 11 cases against 189 recoveries, which brought the active caseload here down to 529.
Among other districts, Bokaro reported nine cases against ten recoveries, while Hazaribag reported nine cases against 26 recoveries. As many as 11 people were found infected by coronavirus in Godda and four Covid patients recovered there.
So far, over 3.44 lakh people have been infected by coronavirus in the State and 97.95 per cent of them have recovered. The doubling rate of cases in the State jumped to 1,566.86 days against the national doubling rate of 419.97 days on Thursday.
The State on Thursday tested swab samples of 42,323 residents and less than 0.5 per cent of them were found infected by novel coronavirus.
The growth rate of Covid-19 dropped further down to 0.04 per cent in Jharkhand on the day against the national average of 0.17 per cent, NHM data highlighted.