There has been a spike in coronavirus cases in East Singhbhum during the past 24 hours as the central health team visited three Covid-designated hospitals on Tuesday.

They also inspected the two Covid testing labs throughout the day.

The three-member team first went over to Tata Main Hospital's Covid wards and to the Coronavirus testing lab of the health hub. At the hospital's Covid ward, the team spoke with patients and inquired about their health condition.

The inspecting team subsequently talked to doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff before holding a brief meeting with the Tata Main Hospital's general manager Rajan Chaudhury.

District civil surgeon, Dr. Rajendra Jha, who accompanied the team, said members provided guidelines to make the line of treatment for Covid more effective during interaction.

"At the Tata Main Hospital, the central team stayed for over half-an-hour after arriving there at about 11 am. Having completed the inspection, the team headed for Tata Motors Hospital's Covid-designated ward at the Parivar Kalyan Sansthan in Telco. Following that, the team visited the Covid ward at the MGM Medical College Hospital in Sakchi," Jha told The Telegraph Online.

He further informed that the team went to Patamda to inspect the standard of medical facilities being provided to villagers infected with Covid, and how containment was working in the rural pocket.

Almost all of the 495 cases that have emerged in the last 24 hours have been clocked from rural areas in East Singhbhum. The total number of Covid cases in the district is 8,636. The 495 new cases came out of 12,810 samples tested on Monday. The average number of Covid tests per day earlier used to be just 3,000.

According to Dr. Jha, as the central team is making inspections at Covid-designated hospitals and testing facilities in the steel city, the district health department has kept the exercise of conducting rapid antigen tests confined to rural areas.

He further said that despite the spike in cases in East Singhbhum, only six Covid deaths were reported till 11 pm on Monday, adding that the Covid death rate in the district is 2.7 percent.