State Covid toll past 3k-mark, 1k in just 8 days

RANCHI: Jharkhand reported 129 Covid fatalities and 6,899 new infections on Monday, taking the state’s active caseload rose to 59,675 and the death toll to 3,073. In a metter of concern the last 1,00 deaths have been added to the toll in just eight days. In terms of mortality rate, Jharkhand with 1.22% has breached the national figure of 1.1% while the recovery rate of 75.03% is also behind the national average of 81.7%.
The state’s cumulative caseload stood at 2,51,371. As many as 5614 patients recovered from the infection on Monday, taking the total number recoveries to 1, 88,623. There was a notable increase in testing and as many as 51,527 samples were tested on Monday with 13.4% of them returning a positive result
Ranchi continued to report the biggest chunk of the numbers with 977 new cases and 38 deaths. The toll was 22 in East Singhbhum and 12 deaths in Dhanbad. Four districts — Bokaro, Chatra, Dumka and Sahebganj -- did not report any casualty while the death figures remained in single digits in the remaining 17 districts, highest being seven in Simdega and six in Hazaribag.
Meanwhile, the district administration on Monday engaged a special team under Civil SDO to conduct Covid testing of doctors and paramedical staff who did not report on duty with the alibi of being infected. Punitive action will be taken against those who are found negative in the special test drive for dereliction of duty of emergent nature.