Jamshedpur, Dec. 16: No COVID-19 death has been reported in the East Singhbhum district in the last nine days as the death toll remains at 374. On Wednesday, East Singhbhum district reported 30 corona positive cases while 16 people recovered of the virus.
The new positives in Jamshedpur took the Coronavirus tally to 17192. 16 people recovered of the virus on Wednesday taking the total recovery to 16610 while total active cases in Jamshedpur are 208.
East Singhbhum district administration has conducted 159944 test per million in the district. The recovery rate in Jamshedpur is 97% while the mortality rate is 2.2 %.
So far in Jamshedpur 435732 samples have been collected out of which 425770 have been tested and 408578 have turned out to be negative.
The Coronavirus tally in the state on Wednesday reached to 1,12,121 as 190 cases of Covid-19 were detected across 16 districts of Jharkhand. During the day 3 deaths were reported including one each from Dumka, Hazaribagh and Palamu districts as a result of which the overall death count has reached to 1004. The mortality rate among the patients currently stands at 0.89 per cent. As per the information provided by the health department the number of active cases in the state was 1,585 while the number of cured and discharged cases stood at 1,09,532. The total number of death caused by Coronavirus in the state stood at 1004.
On Wednesday a maximum number of 87 cases were found in Ranchi followed by 30 in East Singhbhum, 18 in Bokaro, 9 in Palamu and 7 in Dhanbad (top five districts). A total of 180 people were also cured and discharged from various dedicated Covid-19 facilities during the day including 86 from Ranchi, 16 from East Singhbhum, 14 from Palamu, 13 from Bokaro and 10 from Garhwa district. Despite the rampant rise in Coronavirus cases across the state the recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has improved significantly and has once gone above 97 per cent mark to currently stand at 97.69 per cent in Jharkhand. So far in the state 45,64,620 samples have been collected out of which 45,51,337 have been tested and 44,39,216 have turned out to be negative
