A migrant worker of Chakulia, East Singhbhum district, with travel history to Maharashtra, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday taking the total number of positive cases in the district to 25.
The youth has been shifted to Tata Main Hospital Covid ward in Jamshedpur.
East Singhbhum administration on Monday also wrapped up the door-to-door survey of four containment zones in Baridih and Sidhgora in Jamshedpur and traced those who had come in contact with the four Covid-19 patients currently admitted to the Tata Main Hospital.
Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) special officer Krishna Kumar, who is in-charge of the control room for the four containment zones, said the survey was held in over 300 houses.
As many as 18 migrant labourers were injured when the bus that was ferrying them from Mumbai to Bengal tilted on its side at Sikidiri Ghati under Rajrappa police station in Ramgarh district on Monday. The injured were sent to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi. (Manob Chowdhary)
“The house-to-house survey was completed yesterday (Sunday) evening by a surveillance team of health and civic officials. Containment zones are sealed for 14 days from Sunday. All movement is banned and volunteers are delivering food and essentials at doorsteps during this period. One can contact the control room to get essentials delivered or for medical emergencies,” Krishna Kumar said.
Buffer zones have been set up along both sides of the containment zones.
East Singhbhum district reported four Covid-19 cases on Sunday. Two persons from Baridih — a girl student from Bidyapati Nagar with a travel history to Calcutta and another girl from Lohiya Path who had visited Ranchi— were shifted to Tata Main Hospital after they tested positive.
The reports of two persons from Sidhgora — a youth who had visited Calcutta and a JAP constable who had returned from Bhabua in Bihar — also came positive. All four had allegedly violated the home quarantine protocols.
East Singhbhum epidemiologist Dr M. Asad said they would start collecting the samples of high-risk contacts of the four persons in the next four-five days.
“Based on health ministry guidelines, we have to take throat and nasal swab samples of high-risk cases within four-five days of detection. The swabs will be sent for tests to either MGM Medical College or TMH,” Asad said.
Contact tracing has been done by the special cell of the police and surveillance team of the district administration and those with high risk have been kept at the quarantine centres. The administration has set up control rooms in each of the four containment zones after their supervision by DC Ravi Shankar Shukla and SSP M. Tamilvanan.
