Jharkhand: 60 fresh cases, recovery rate touches 77% mark

RANCHI: Jharkhand reported 60 fresh Covid-19 cases from 16 districts on Thursday night even as chief minister Hemant Soren lauded the state’s health workers for the overall recovery rate and health minister Banna Gupta promised to get patients with serious ailments tested for the new virus.
East Singhbhum, which has the highest caseload among the 24 districts, added nine more to its tally, taking the total to 409.Palamu, which had two active cases, added eight more to its tally in the biggest single-day spike for the district. The total active cases in Palamu shot up to eight with two patients being discharged upon recovery.
Koderma added eight more cases to its tally of 35 active cases, followed by Giridih and Chatrawith seven new infections each. Hazaribag, Dhanbad, Latehar and Ranchi reported three cases each. Sahibganj and Khunti reported two cases each while Deoghar, Garhwa, Godda, Lohardaga, Ramgarh reported one each. Of the new cases, nine are migrants.
Jharkhand’s Covid tally now stands at 2,585, of which 582 are active, 1,988 have recovered and 15 have died.
On Thursday, 57 patients made a full recovery with Hazaribag (33) recording the highest. Jharkhand’s recovery rate rose to 76.90%, significantly higher than the national average of 59.52%. The state’s doubling rate is 36.72 days, almost double the national average of 19.78 days.
Late on Wednesday night, Soren had taken to social media to applaud the state’s health officials for achieving this recovery rate. “The number of fresh cases has come down in the last 20 days. It has been possible because of the efforts of corona warriors and the support of the common people,” Soren said.
On Thursday, Gupta announced that the state government will facilitate Covid-19 testing of patients identified with critical ailments. Gupta’s office, in a statement issued to the media, said these patients were identified in a door-to-door screening drive conducted between June 18 and 25. However, the health department did not reveal how many such patients were identified.