103 deaths, 5,903 Cov cases in state, tally crosses 2-lakh mark

Ranchi: The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic killed 103 people and infected 5,903 people across Jharkhand in the past 24 hours, the state health department said on Sunday night. With the new infections, the number of positive cases in the state crossed the two-lakh mark for the first time since the first case was detected in Ranchi on March 31 last year.
The state’s death toll rose to 1,991 on Sunday and active caseload has risen to 48,105. The only silver lining was that 3,287 people recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours.
As of Sunday, the state's total Covid-19 cases stood at 2, 01,747 and , 51,651 people have recovered so far, the state health department said.
Among the deaths, Ranchi district reported the highest at 43. East Singhbhum reported 16 deaths and Koderma reported seven. While five people died in Ramgarh, Dhanbad and Latehar recorded four deaths each. Giridih, Hazaribag, Palamu and Seraikela-Kharsawan also reported three deaths each while Bokaro, Chatra, Deoghar, Dumka, Godda, Gumla, Khunti and Lohardaga reported one death each.
The most numbers of infections in the past 24 hours was also reported from Ranchi (1,494). East Singhbhum registered 702 new cases followed by Koderma (425), Hazaribag (341), Dhanbad (326), Ramgarh (309), Bokaro (316), Deoghar (244) and Chatra (237). Ranchi also reported the most recoveries (723) followed by East Singhbhum (361) and Hazaribag (315).
On Sunday, Jharkhand’s positivity rate was 18.75% and the total number of samples tested stood at 31,482. Jharkhand’s weekly growth rate of the infections stood at 2.72%, nearly double the national average of 1.46%. The cases in the state are nearly half (25.86 days) the time compared to the national average of 47.78 days)]. The state’s recovery rate, 75.16%, is lower than the national average of 83%.