At least 11 new cases of COVID-19 infection surfaced in Jharkhand on Thursday, health officials said. The findings took the total number of COVID-19 cases in State to 469, as per a bulletin shared by the National Health Mission (NHM) by the time this report was filed.

Out of the 11 patients, at least four were tested in Ranchi, the NHM bulletin said. One each of these four patients are from Gumla, Dhanbad, Giridih and Ranchi, NHM officials said. Besides, two patients who tested positive in Jamshedpur had travelled to Mumbai, health officials said.

The four patients who tested positive in Ranchi were admitted in Medica Superspecialty Hospital near Booty More, sources said. “At least 11 suspects tested positive for COVID-19 today. The count of migrants who tested positive for the viral infection has also increased," said Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni.

According to figures with the National Health Mission (NHM), at least 191 COVID-19 patients have recovered in Jharkhand so far.

At least 21 patients recovered on Wednesday. There are more than 260 active cases in State as reported on Thursday late evening.

More than half of the 460 odd people infected by COVID-19 virus so far in Jharkhand are in the age bracket of 11 to 30 years – a trend that highlights how young people were as prone to the virus as their older counterparts, health officials said.

Out of the 460 odd cases, 262 are in the age bracket of 11 to 30 years and 160 in rhe age bracket of 31 to 50 years, an NHM report said.

According to NHM, more than 60 per cent of the COVID-19 cases reported in Jharkhand are that of migrant workers. At least 300 migrant workers have tested positive in Jharkhand since May 5, the NHM bulletin said.

The Government has so far collected samples of 66,325 COVID-19 suspects from across the State, and more than 460 of them have tested positive.

At least 57,250 of the 66,000 odd samples collected have been tested so far, the NHM report said.