Jharkhand witnessed the highest every single-day-spike in cases of Covid-19 infection on Tuesday as 685 people, including at least 231 from Ranchi alone, tested positive for the virus, Government data stated.
This is the first instance of the number of fresh cases reported in a span of 24 hours crossing the 500 mark in Jharkhand, health officials said. The highest single-day-spike reported until Tuesday was 457 on July 26, officials said.
With Tuesday’s findings, the total count of active cases in Jharkhand jumped to 5485, a bulletin released by National Health Mission (NHM) stated. At least 1,222 of the
5,500-odd active cases are in Ranchi, the worst-affected district in the State.
The total count of Covid-19 cases reported in Jharkhand so far also neared 10,000 mark on Tuesday as the tally stood at 9,563, the NHM bulletin highlighted.
Only one Covid death was reported in Jharkhand on Tuesday from Hazaribag, taking the Covid toll in the State to 94. The Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand, as per Government data, was 0.98 per cent against the national average of 2.34 per cent.
As many as 179 patients recovered from the infection on Tuesday, taking the total count of Covid recoveries in Jharkhand to 3,984. The recovery rate in Jharkhand was 41.66 per cent on Tuesday against the national average of 62.72 per cent, Government data stated.
The Government has so far collected swab samples of 2.82 lakh suspects and tested 2.72 lakh of them. Around 2.4 lakh people have been put in home quarantine in Jharkhand and nearly 6,000 have been sent to institutional quarantine, health officials said.