Out of the total number of cases, 164 are active while 136 people recovered from the infection in the state, a government bulletin said here.
The Director of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr D K Singh, said nine out of 703 swab samples tested at RIMS during the day tested positive to COVID-19 while the rest were negative cases. Among those testing positive Thursday, two belong to Koderma while seven others hail from Ranchi districts Chanho-Mandar.
Thirteen other people found infected are from different districts.
With 40 active COVID-19 positive cases, Garhwa tops the list followed by Hazaribag (30 active cases), Ranchi (19), Rast Singhbhum (16) and Giridih (15) among others, the bulletin said.
Five out of a total 24 districts in Jharkhand have no positive patient, it said. PVR SNS SNS