The count of fresh cases of Covid-19 infection in Jharkhand broke all past records by a huge margin on Monday as over 3000 people were found infected in 24 hours, around twice as much as the cases found in the last highest single-day-spike reported in Jharkhand, figures released by the health department stated.
The State, by Sunday, had registered the highest single-day-spike of 1365 Covid-19 cases on August 27, government figures state. However, on Monday, over 600 people were found infected in Ranchi alone, taking the tally in the district close to 7,000. The State’s Covid tally crossed the 40,000 mark on Monday and the number of active cases reached 14,096.
While the Government has attributed the spike in Covid cases to intensified testing across the state, the figures, sources said, were quite alarming as the numbers are expected to further increase once malls, restaurants and hotels resume services on Tuesday.
As many as seven people died of the infection in the past 24 hours taking the Covid toll to 417, Government data stated. East Singhbhum, the district which has reported highest number of Covid fatalities in the State so far, reported six deaths on Monday, the highest among 24 districts in Jharkhand.
As per Government records, Ranchi has the highest number of active cases, while East Singhbhum has the second highest number of patients who are yet to recover from the infection. As many as 2,566 people were undergoing treatment for the viral infection in East Singhbhum by the time this report was filed, while 2,789 patients were yet to recover from the virus in Ranchi.
The Government has so far collected swab samples of 9.20 lakh people and tested 9.13 lakh of them. On Monday, health workers tested swab samples of 1,54,667 people and 1,51,449 of them came negative. On Monday, Government for the first time managed to test more than 1 lakh people in 24 hours, health officials said.
At least 695 people recovered from the infection on Monday and were subsequently discharged from hospital, taking the number of Covid recoveries in Jharkhand to 27,143, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
As per the NHM bulletin released on Monday late night, Jharkhand’s Covid recovery rate was 65.15 per cent against the national average of 75.27 per cent. The fatality rate in the state was 1 percent, which the lower than the national Covid fatality rate of 1.85 per cent.