3,157 new Covid cases, 6,762 recoveries in Jharkhand

RANCHI: The number of recoveries continued to outnumber fresh Covid-19 cases in the state on Saturday. The reported 3,157 new cases and 6,762 were cured in the last 24 hours while 65 died of the infection, the state health department’s bulletin said.
The state’s active cases now stand at 41,386 while the death toll has reached 4431, the bulletin said.
Of the new cases, Ranchi recorded the highest of 465. The deaths in the district also dipped to 19. Other districts with triple-digit cases included East Singhbhum (297), Hazaribag (200), Palamu (230) and West Singbhum (234). Pakur was the lone district with a single case.
Other districts with high fatalities included East Singbhum (12), Bokaro and Giridih (6 each), Garhwa, Lohardaga, and Ramgarh (3 each), West Singbhum, Palamu, and Hazaribag (two each), Deoghar, Dhanbad, Godda, Jamtara, Khunti, Koderma and Seraikela (one each). Six districts didn’t report any death.
The state’s seven-day growth rate stands at 1.29% compared to 1.04% nationally. The seven-day doubling rate is also 54.15 while it is 66.70 in the country. The recovery rate stands at 85.37%, about two notches more than the national figure of 83.80% while the mortality rate is 1.41%, which is higher than the national rate of 1.10%.
Meanwhile, 29,15,626 beneficiaries received their first dose and 6,68,416 received both doses on Saturday.