Ranchi: With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting the state, patients in Ranchi district are finding it difficult to get institutional care as most private hospitals are running short of beds and government healthcare facilities are yet to be ramped up . Of the 6,844 active cases in Jharkhand on Tuesday night, Ranchi accounted for more than 53% (3,665).
The state capital is witnessing a massive surge in Covid, reporting a positivity rate as high as that in Mumbai, which is getting close to 9,000 new cases a day. In the first six days of this month, a total of 15,952 samples were tested in Ranchi, of which 2,763 returned a positive result.