Highest single-day death toll of 7 in state, 80 new cases

Ranchi/Jamshedpur: Jharkhand recorded the highest number of single-day deaths so far on Sunday after seven people succumbed to the deadly virus.
The state also detected 80 fresh infections from 13 districts, taking the cumulative caseload to 3,760.
The fatalities included two patients in Ranchi and one each from Koderma, Godda, East Singhbum, Dhanbad and Deoghar districts. With Sunday's deaths, the toll in the state has risen to 31.
In Ranchi, a 60-year-old man and another person in his late sixties, who were admitted at the Covid-19 block of Rims, died. Both victims had diabetes and kidney ailments, the hospital said.
The Koderma and Dhanbad patients also died at Rims during treatment. A doctor at Rims said, "The patient from Dhanbad was a 60-year-old male while the deceased from Koderma was 67 years old. The latter was brought dead from Raj Hospital with renal failure."
In Godda, a 50-year-old man died at the sadar hospital, where he was admitted with respiratory problems. The Jamshedpur victim was a 55-year-old who hailed from Sonari locality and passed away at the Tata Main Hospital. He was also suffering from liver ailments and pneumonia.
So far, Dhanbad has become the district with the highest number of deaths at four.
Of the total 3,760 cases in the state, 1,422 are active. The 80 fresh cases were reported from Chatra (18), Koderma (14), Ranchi (13), Hazaribag (9), Latehar (6), Dhanbad (5), Palamu (4), Deoghar (3), Ramgarh (3) and Garhwa (2). Giridih, Sahibganj and Khunti had one case each.
In June-end, the state department of health and family welfare was upbeat as the number of infections was low, but a surge soon began in July with the weekly growth rate surpassing the national average of 3.43%. Cases in Jharkhand are also doubling every 17 days, which is closing in on the national average of 20.5 days.