At least four Jharkhand districts — Dumka, Godda, Pakur and Palamu — did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, while two more casualties, one each in East Singhbhum and Dumka, took the Covid toll in the State to 5,106 in the past 24 hours, figures released by the health department highlighted.
The State on Thursday tested swab samples of 50,454 residents and 114 of them, less than 0.3 per cent, tested positive for Covid-19, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. As many as 252 Covid patients recovered from the infection on the day, bringing the active caseload in the State down to 1,224, the bulletin further stated.
While none of the 24 districts in Jharkhand reported a spike of more than 20 cases, Ranchi accounted for 15 fresh cases of infection — the highest among the districts. Ranchi also reported 99 Covid recoveries on the day, which brought the active caseload here down to 360.
At least 20 recoveries against nine fresh cases of infection brought the active caseload in East Singhbhum down to 141, the NHM stated in its bulletin. Except Ranchi, all the districts in the state reported a single-digit-spike in cases, a trend that highlights the drop in Covid transmission across the State, health officials said.
As per Government data, over 3.45 lakh people have been infected by Coronavirus in Jharkhand so far and 98.16 per cent of them have recovered.
However, 1.47 per cent of the patients could not survive the viral infection, which claimed almost thrice as many lives in second wave as in the first one last year.
The growth rate of Covid-19 was 0.03 per cent in Jharkhand on Thursday against the national average of 0.12 per cent, while the doubling rate in the State jumped to 2,206.13 days against the national doubling rate of 560.62 days, the NHM bulletin highlighted.
The State on Thursday administered the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to as many as 93,549 residents, including over 77,000 from the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years. As per NHM data, the second jab was administered to 13,906 beneficiaries and almost 4,000 of them were younger than 45 years.
At least one confirmed and five suspected cases of Mucormycosis also surfaced in the State on Thursday, taking the total count of confirmed cases to 84 and suspected cases to 59. So far, 26 people have died of the fungal infection and 54 patients have recovered.