Jharkhand has jumped from sixth position to fourth position among all States and Union Territories in country in terms of Covid-19 recovery rate, health officials said on Tuesday.
As per Government data, the State's Covid recovery rate was 75.66 per cent on Monday against the national average of 59.07 per cent. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Odisha had better recovery rate than Jharkhand, as per details released by the health Ministry on June 24. The State was below Odisha and Gujarat in terms of Covid recovery rate then.
Rajasthan has a recovery rate of 78.80 per cent, as per figures mentioned in the official website of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Madhya Pradesh has the second highest recovery rate of 77.26 per cent, while Bihar has a recovery rate of 76.47 per cent, health ministry's official website highlighted.
“Our doctors are doing a commendable job. It is certainly an achievement for the state and a morale booster for everyone involved in fighting the pandemic in Jharkhand,” said state health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni.
The recovery rate in Jharkhand jumped from 38.16 per cent on June 10 to nearly 76 per cent on Monday, data compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated.
The count of patients who have recovered from Covid-19 infection has already surpassed the number of active cases in Jharkhand. According to data shared by NHM on Monday morning, as many as 2490 Covid cases have been reported in the state so far and 1884 of these patients have recovered. The number of active cases here stands at 591.
Dr. Prabhat Kumar, the in-charge of State's Covid-19 task force, said that Jharkhand's Covid-fighting model could be replicated in other states to fight Coronavirus. “Our recovery rate is among the best in the country. The credit for this goes to our health workers and others involved in fighting Corona here,” he said
The government has so far collected samples of 1.44 lakh Covid suspects from across the state and tested around 1.42 lakh of them.
Around 3 lakh people have been put in home quarantine in the state and over 30,000 have been sent to institutional quarantine, NHM figures further said.