State records 13 Covid deaths, 1,014 fresh cases

Ranchi: Jharkhand on Sunday reported 13 Covid deaths two days after the state witnessed a dip in the number of casualties. The number of single-day fresh cases continues to be above the 1,000-mark in the state as 1,014 cases were reported on Sunday.
With the 13 deaths, of which two were reported late on Saturday, the toll has now increased to 555. East Singhbhum, which has the highest number of deaths in the state, reported six casualties. Two deaths each were also reported from Godda and West Singhbhum while Dhanbad reported one. The remaining two were reported from Ranchi and Seraikela late on Saturday night.
The state unit of National Health Mission (NHM) said 544 deaths were reported till Saturday of which 77% (419) were males and 23% (124) are females. The highest mortality is detected among people in the age group of 51 to 70 years with 271 of them succumbing to the infection and followed by 133 patients of above the age of 70 years. Another 115 patients in the age group of 31 to 50 died from the virus whereas only 22 died in the age group of 11-30 years. Three children below 10 years also died, the NHM said.
Meanwhile, the positivity rate continued to maintain its streak at 6.8% as 1,014 out of 14,731 samples tested on Sunday returned positive. Ranchi and East Singhbhum remained the top of districts with the highest number of positive cases with the capital city reporting 399 cases and the latter detected 115 new cases. Dhanbad with 68 and Saraikela with 61 cases also reported a significant increase.
On Sunday, the state’s caseload stood at 61,474 while 1,509 recovered. Of the total cases, 14,336 are active while 46,583 have recovered.
The ratio of recoveries to new infections has also improved after 75% of the infected patients were cured. The national recovery rate stands at about 77%. The weekly growth rate saw a minor increase and stood at 3.96% in comparison to the national average of 2.16%. However, the weekly doubling rate (18 days) continues to be around 14 points ahead of the national average of 32 days.