Jharkhand Covid-19 tally at 280 with 32 new cases

Jharkhand on Wednesday reported the highest ever spike in Covid-19 positive cases after 32 people, mostly migrant workers from across the state’s six districts, were found infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus.

With discovery of these cases, the total count of confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 280.

While maximum 18 cases were reported from Garhwa district, five each cases were found in East Singhbhum’s Jamshedpur and Koderma districts. Besides, Giridih district recorded two new cases and Hazaribag and Gumla districts detected one case each.

In Garhwa, 14 cases were reported from Korwadih, three cases from Vishnupura and one case from Majhiaon blocks.

“14 migrant workers, who had arrived here from Mumbai and were put in government quarantine centre at Korwadih, were tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. Earlier, one person from this group had been found infected with this respiratory disease. The patients are being shifted to district’s Covid-19 hospital,” said Garhwa civil surgeon Dr NK Rajak.

With increase of 18 cases on Thursday, Garhwa district has now 47 positive cases.

In East Singhbhum’s Jamshedpur, three of a family in Govindur locality have tested coronavirus positive along with one patient each from Mango and Golmuri on Wednesday.

“Since the three patients are from a single family we are secluding the area as a micro-containment zone. But the patients testing positive from Mango and Golmuri didn’t come in contact with any other person hence there will be no containment zones in those two localities,” said Ravishankar Shukla, East Singhbhum deputy commissioner (DC).

Koderma district also reported five new positive cases. “All persons tested positive are migrant workers,” said Koderma civil surgeon Dr Parvati Kumari Nag.

Giridih civil surgeon Dr B Das too confirmed detection of two new cases from the district. He said, “The two patients are migrant workers who had came here from Surat and were kept in government quarantine centre at Jammua block.”