Ranchi, Oct 11 (PTI) Jharkhand's COVID-19 tally rose to 91,951 on Sunday as 697 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said.

Three more patients succumbed to the infection, taking the state's coronavirus death toll to 784, he said.

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Jharkhand now has 8,362 active coronavirus cases, while 82,805 people have been cured of the disease so far, the official said.

The state has tested 28,104 samples for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, he added.

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