Jharkhand's COVID-19 caseload rose to 72,673 on Tuesday as 1,321 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said.
Nine more patients succumbed to the infection, taking the state's coronavirus death toll to 626, he said.
The state now has 13,504 active COVID-19 cases, while 58,543 people have been cured of the disease so far, the official said.
Jharkhand has tested 37,483 samples for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, he added.
