Jharkhand reports 358 new Covid-19 cases, 6 deaths

RANCHI: Jharkhand on Monday reported six Covid-19 deaths and 358 new cases with East Singhbhum reporting the highest of 51 fresh infections.
The state’s positivity rate stood at 0.79% after 45,054 samples were tested during the day.
Hazaribag (36) and Dhanbad (32) are two other districts that reported a high number of new cases.
Pakur and Godda reported a minimum of two cases each.
Of the deaths, one each was reported Dhanbad, East Singhbhum, Garhwa, Hazaribag, Lohardaga and Ranchi.
The remaining 18 districts did not report any casualty.
The state’s cumulative caseload was 3,41,576 while the death toll stood at 5,060, the health department said in its evening bulletin.
As of Monday, Jharkhand had 5,312 active cases with the biggest chunk of 1,488 cases in Ranchi.
Meanwhile, as many as 48,876 people took their first dose of the vaccine while 5,586 beneficiaries took the second dose on Monday.