(Riya Saha, Intern Journalist)Jharkhand reported the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases and casualties on Saturday with 1,242 people found infected with the coronavirus disease while 16 patients died in different hospitals across the state.
More than 100 inmates of Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Central Jail (BMCJ) were among the 1,242 new patients infected with the virus. The state also reported 698 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
With these new cases, the state’s total count touched 22,192 including 8,156 active cases, 13,811 recovered cases, and 225 deaths.