The total number of Jharkhandis defeating Covid-19 infection crossed the 75,000 mark on Sunday after as many as 907 Covid patients tested negative for the virus in a span of 24 hours, figures released by the state health department stated.
However, the count of active cases saw a marginal increase, as at least 933 people were found infected across the state on Sunday, taking the Covid tally up at 87,210, stated the health department in its daily Covid-19 bulletin released on Sunday night. As many as 75531 of the 87,000-odd Covid patients have recovered from the infection so far, while 10,936 were still battling the virus, the bulletin further stated.
While the State has registered a recovery rate of 86.60 per cent, which is higher than the national average, the number of Covid victims has also been on the rise. As per government data, at least nine more Covid-19 patients died during treatment on Sunday, taking the Covid toll in Jharkhand to 743. The Covid mortality rate in the state was 0.85 per cent against the national Covid mortality rate of 1.60 per cent.
Three of the nine Covid deaths on Sunday occurred in Ranchi, while two patients died in East Singhbhum, highlighted government data. Latehar reported two casualties, while Chatra and West Singhbhum reported one death each. The Covid toll in East Singhbhum reached 308 on Sunday. The toll in Ranchi was 127, as per government data.
Meanwhile, the Covid tally crossed the 20,000 mark in Ranchi alone. The district reported 374 cases of infection against 291 recoveries on Sunday, which took the count of active cases here up at 3,437, the highest among all districts in Jharkhand. The number of active cases, however, reduced in East Singhbhum after the district reported 119 recoveries against 74 cases of infection. There were around 1800 active cases in East Singhbhum after Sunday’s findings.
The Government on Sunday tested swab samples of 19,563 people across the state and 18,630 of them came negative. Health workers in Jharkhand have so far collected swab samples of 24 lakh people and tested 23.94 lakh of them. The doubling rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 47.89 days against the national doubling rate of 49.76 days. The growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand in the past one week was 1.42 per cent against the national average of 1.30 per cent, stated National Health Mission (NHM) in a press communique.