Jharkhand’s Covid 19 recovery rate has been improving and stands at 75.84 per cent now, whereas the rate of fatality has seen a steady decline to reach at 0.50 per cent, as the health bulletin issued by the Health department.
On Sunday, 2132 samples were tested at four Covid 19 testing labs --RIMS, Ranchi; MGM, Jamshedpur, PMCH, Dhanbad & Itki Arogyashala, Itki, Ranchi & Private labs out of which 22 samples were tested positive while rest 2110 were tested as negative. While 22 patients were tested positive at the same time 69 patients were discharged from hospital after they recovered from disease.
A health department official requesting anonymity said, “Jharkhand recovery is much better than many states. The State recovery rate is 75 per cent while the national rate is 58.56 per cent. This is a big relief for State.”
The official further said, “While on one hand State recovery rate is 75 per cent the mortality rate of Covid 19 is also much lower than other states. The State mortality rate is 0.50 per cent, while the national mortality rate is 3.04 per cent.” State recovery rate improving and declining mortality rate has come at the time when Maharashtra reported the biggest single-day spike of 5,493 COVID-19 cases so far on Sunday, which took the tally of patients in the state to 1,64,626.
With nearly 20,000 fresh infections reported in the past 24 hours, India now has over 5.28 lakh Covid cases. As many as 410 deaths were reported, taking the number of casualties to 16,095. While active infections stand at 2,03,051, there are 3,09,713 patients who have already recovered.
The 22 samples which were tested positive includes four each from Garhwa and Giridih, three from East Singhbhum and rest from other parts of State. In State Capital one person was found with infection on Sunday.
With 22 samples tested positive the number of positive case in Jharkhand has gone up to 2364. Out of 2264 cases, the number of active case is 559 while 1793 have discharged after they recovering from disease. The number fatality in State stands to 12.