Ranchi: As many as 207 patients have succumbed to the Covid-19 virus in the first fortnight of April alone. Of them, 134 deaths have been reported between April 11 and April 14, making it the deadliest spell of the pandemic so far in Jharkhand. Between February 17 and March 31, the number of fatalities stood at 40 in cumulative.
If public health experts and doctors treating the Covid 19 patients are to be believed, the death toll is expected to register a steep growth in the coming weeks.
Dr Nishith Kumar of Ranchi’s Orchid Hospital, who has been treating Covid-19 patients since the outbreak of the pandemic, said the presence of mutated strains of the Covid-19 virus in Jharkhand is a major contributor to the rising deaths in the state.