Virus caseload in Jharkhand past 90k-mark, set to breach China figure

Ranchi: With eight new casualties, the Covid-19 toll Jharkhand rose to 7775 even as the state continued to report new infection three digits and recoveries in four digits, bringing down the number of active cases to 9,272, the lowest since August 16. Of the eight casualties, five were in Ranchi and one each in Bokaro, Ramgarh and Palamu.
With 784 new cases, the cumulative caseload in Jharkhand breached the 90,000-mark and stood at 90,486, of which 80,439 (including 1,263 on Thursday) have recovered. If current trends continue, Jharkhand will have more cases than the whole of China (90,689 at the time of writing according to Johns Hopkins University) in the next couple of days.
Ranchi and East Singhbhum reported the highest number of new number of cases with 247 and 233 respectively, making up 61.22% of the new cases. The positivity rate fell significantly as 2.44% of 32.092 samples tested on Thursday returned a positive result. The state also reached the milestone of more than 25 lakh tests on Thursday morning.