The number of active cases of Covid-19 infection jumped above 700 in Ranchi on Friday as at least 102 people were found infected by the virus in the district during the past 24 hours, while 87 patients recovered here during the same period, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.

After Friday's test results, Ranchi alone accounted for close to 50 per cent of the 1465 active cases in the state, a bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. As per the bulletin, Jharkhand reported 207 cases of infection on the day and Ranchi was the only district to register a triple-digit-spike.

The capital also reported one of the two Covid fatalities in the state on the day, taking the Covid toll in Ranchi up at 222 and that in Jharkhand to 1043. The other death occured in Dhanbad, which has reported 107 Covid fatalities so far.

Barring Ranchi and East Singhbhum, all the remaining 22 districts had less than 100 active cases of Covid-19 infection. At least 165 patients were battling the infection in East Singhbhum.

At least five of the 24 districts in Jharkhand did not report even a single case of Covid-19 infection on the day. However, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Palamu registered a double-digit-spike in cases of infection. At least 29 people were found infected in Dhanbad, 17 in East Singhbhum and 12 in Bokaro. As many as 10 cases surfaced in Palamu.

Fresh cases outnumbered recoveries in Jharkhand on the day, as the state reported only 188 recoveries, government data stated. As per government data, the Covid tally in the state reached 116436 on the day and about 97.84 per cent of these patients had recovered.

The government on Friday tested swab samples of 13,870 people and more than 1.5 per cent of them were found infected. So far, health workers have collected swab samples of 49.27 lakh people and tested 49.16 lakh of them, highlights the NHM bulletin.

As per the bulletin, the growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.13 per cent against the national average of 0.15 per cent. The doubling rate of the virus in the state was 538.71 days while that across India was 467.37 days.