Jharkhand’s Covid-19 recovery rate jumped further up to 83.40 per cent on Saturday after as many as 1,324 Covid patients recovered from the infection, while 1,226 people tested positive for the virus in 24 hours, figures released by the state health department stated.
Jharkhand is among the few states which have a better Covid recovery rate than the national average of 82.10 per cent, officials said. Despite the drop in the number of active cases in Jharkhand on Saturday, the number of patients increased in Ranchi, which continues to be the worst-affected district in Jharkhand in terms of Covid cases reported.
As many as 425 cases surfaced in Ranchi against 318 recoveries on the day, taking the active cases in the district to 3,955, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted. As per the bulletin, Ranchi accounted for nearly 35 per cent of the total 12,426 active cases of infection in Jharkhand.
The number of active cases dropped in East Singhbhum on Saturday after 214 people were found infected there against 263 recoveries. As per the NHM bulletin, the number of active cases in East Singhbhum dropped to 2,119. The figures also highlight that Ranchi and East Singhbhum account for around 50 per cent of the active cases in Jharkhand.
Meanwhile, six more Covid patients died during treatment in the state on Saturday, taking the Covid toll in Jharkhand to 670, the NHM bulletin stated. As per the bulletin, East Singhbhum reported two of the six deaths on Saturday and the toll in the district alone jumped to 287, which is the highest among all districts in Jharkhand. The Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 0.84 per cent on Saturday against the national Covid mortality rate of 1.60 per cent.
So far, the government has collected swab samples of 20.42 lakh people across Jharkhand and tested 20.29 lakh of them. Of the over 20 lakh people tested, 78,935 were found Covid positive since March. As many as 65,839 of these patients have recovered from the infection. As per government data, on Saturday, health workers tested swab samples of 30,152 people and 28,926 of them came negative.