The Covid-19 count for East Singhbhum touched four on Friday night with a migrant labourer from Chennai testing positive.

District deputy commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla said that the migrant worker had come on a Shramik special train from Chennai to Hatia on May 13.

“The migrant worker had arrived from Chennai on the special train at Hatia and had come on a bus to East Singhbhum on May 13. He was kept in institutional quarantine at Musaboni and his sample report was found positive,” said Shukla.

Sources in the East Singhbhum district surveillance unit said that the 35-year-old worker, a native of Patamda block, around 27 km north of Jamshedpur, was taken to Loyola School immediately after being brought to the city on a bus. His sample was taken for test.

“Everyone in the bus was immediately tested. The report came on Friday late evening. Since arrival he was kept at the Musaboni quarantine centre and was shifted to Tata Main Hospital yesterday (Friday) night itself after his report came positive,” said a highly placed source.

The district administration has also started contact tracing of the man.

“The state government has been informed about the positive case for contact tracing especially of those people who had travelled with him on the special train. We have also started contact tracing of the persons who were staying with the positive case at the Musaboni quarantine centre,” said a senior administrative official.

An MNC employee and a chartered accountancy student, both from Chakulia, who had arrived at their home in a private car from Calcutta on May 8, had tested positive earlier. Another man from Calcutta who had arrived in Jamshedpur on May 11 and was under institutional quarantine at MGM Hospital also tested positive.

All the Covid-19 patients are asymptomatic and are under treatment at Tata Main Hospital (TMH) in Bistupur.

Dr Rajan Chaudhry, general manager (medical services), Tata Steel, said that all the four Covid-19 patients are medically stable.

“They will be subjected to another two rounds of test after 14 days and will be released if their reports are found negative,” Dr Chaudhry added.

The doctors at TMH treating Covid-19 patients are kept under quarantine for two weeks (one week at the hospital and another week at their home).

“The doctors treating Covid-19 positive cases are kept under quarantine for 14 days and we have a roster of doctors to treat Covid-19 cases which is changed every two weeks,” Dr Chaudhry said.