Jamshedpur records highest one-day jump in Covid cases with 692 infections, 6 deaths

Jamshedpur, April 17: Jamshedpur recorded 692 new Covid-19 cases in the highest single-day spike ever since the pandemic began last year. With the fresh cases, Steel City’s positive cases tally has mounted to 3378, according to the data provided by the East Singhbhum district health department on Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, a total of 6 people succumbed to the Covid-19 infection in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 430.

With Jamshedpur breaking its pandemic record every day, Jharkhand government is planning to impose fresh curbs to contain the virus spread.

The positivity rate rose to 3.43 per cent in Jamshedpur.

The cumulative coronavirus case count stands at 23723 and the death count is now 430, according to the latest health bulletin.

The new cases came out of the 4567 tests conducted on Saturday.

Of the 692 new cases, 679 are from Jamshedpur urban area, 3 each from Musabani, Dhalbhumgarh and Ghatsila, 2 each from Baharagora and Chakulia.

There are 3378 active COVID-19 cases in Jamshedpur. The infection tally in the Steel City has gone up to 23723 and a total of 430 fatalities due to the disease have been recorded so far.

As many as 19915 people have recovered from COVID-19 so far with 173 recoveries recorded in the last 24-hours. Over 4500 COVID-19 tests, including 1174 RT-PCR and 2963 RAT were conducted in the last 24 hours in the city.

East Singhbhum district administration has conducted 260120 test per million in the district. The recovery rate in Jamshedpur has dropped down to 86.47 % while the mortality rate is 1.81%.

So far in Jamshedpur 707861 samples have been collected out of which 692440 have been tested and 668717 have turned out to be negative.