Jharkhand’s Covid tally crosses 2,500, 80% of all patients are migrants

Ranchi: Jharkhand’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 2,500 mark on Wednesday night after 35 fresh cases were reported from nine districts. Returning migrants, who started arriving from various states into their home districts of Jharkhand on May 1, constitute 79.24% of the state’s total caseload. As of Wednesday evening, 2,001 patients in the state are migrant workers. Of the total cases detected on Wednesday, 27 are migrants.
Jharkhand’s cumulative caseload stood at 2,525 on Wednesday. East Singhbhum reported eight new infections followed by Dhanbad (6) Hazaribag (5) and Garhwa (4). Pakur, which had just one active case till Tuesday, reported two new infections along with Ranchi and Sahibganj. Bokaro, Dumka, Godda, Gumla, Khunti and Lohardaga reported one case each, the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) cell said.
The highest number of infected migrant workers are in Simdega (346) followed by East Singhbhum (285), Hazaribag (176), Koderma (172), Ramgarh (116), Gumla (110) and Giridih (79).
Until Wednesday, Khunti and Godda had one active case each. In East Singbhum, the Covid-19 tally crossed 400 mark on Wednesday night. West Singhbhum has the second most positive cases (353) followed by Ranchi (224) and Hazaribag (197).
As many as 3,051 samples were tested on Wednesday across the designated testing labs. The number of samples tested was higher than previous days, where the figures hovered between 2,100 and 2,700.
The IDSP said 47 patients were discharged upon recovery. Of them, Gumla and East Singhbhum have 11 patients each followed by Bokaro (7), Jamtara (5), Deoghar (4), Latehar (4), Ramgarh (2), Palamu (1), Ramgarh (1) and Ranchi (1).