RANCHI: The number of active
Covid cases in the state capital jumped past the 10,000-mark for the first time with the city recording its biggest single-day spike of 1,410 new infections on Saturday.
With 300 recoveries through the day, the city’s cumulative caseload stood at 49,671, of which 10,505 are active cases, 38,810 have recovered and 356 have died. On Friday, five officials at the chief minister’s residence had tested positive for covid and more than two dozen of the staff at CMO were quarantined on Saturday.
Five death in the district also took Ranchi’s April Covid toll to 97, already making April the deadliest month for the capital since the outbreak started, crossing October’s toll of 59. The city’s toll remains behind East Singhbhum’s 411, of which six were on Wednesday. The number of
cases recorded so this month – 14,201 -- is also the highest for the city, with the positivity rate through the month hovering around 20%.
Meanwhile,
Jharkhand recorded 3,838 fresh Covid cases Saturday, just five short of Friday’s all-time high. Deaths fell to 30, comparison to Friday’s figure of 56. The state’s cumulative caseload stood at 1,58,953, of which 1,31,928 have recovered (including 1,234 on Saturday), 25,619 are active cases and 1,406 have died.
Apart from Ranchi and East Singhbhum, Bokaro reported four deaths. West Singhbhum, Sahebganj, Ramgarh and Khunti reported two each and Dhanbad, Dumka, Garhwa, Godda, Koderma, Latehar and Palamu reported one each. Of the new cases East Singhbhum recorded 521, Koderma 193, Dhanbad 180, Hazaribag 160, Bokaro 136, Khunti 127, Ramgarh 121, West Singhbhum 119 and Deoghar 103.
The state health department said Jharkhand’s seven day growth rate was at 1.89% on Saturday, much higher than the national average of 1.03%. Cases in the state are doubling every 36.93 days while nationally, the seven day doubling rate was 67.94 days.
A total of 46,062 people took vaccine shot on Saturday. Among 46,062, a total 37243 people were administered their first jab and a total of 8819 beneficiaries took the second dose of vaccine.