Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner Uma Shankar Singh on Saturday carried out an inspection of Covid hot spots and testing centres in the district.

Singh instructed authorities to intensify the testing in the hot spots as the district recorded 31 cases on April 1 and 33 on April 3.

At present there are 78 active Covid cases.

On Friday, 10 cases were reported in one colony of ward Number 11 of Jamadoba. The DC instructed officials to carry out Covid tests of all 81 families living in the colony.

The DC visited Sadar Hospital at around 1 pm and instructed hospital in-charge, Dr Rajkumar Singh to test patients visiting the OPD centre.

Singh accompanied by Civil Surgeon Dr Gopal Das and others later took stock of testing preparedness at the Swadeshi Mela at Zila Parisahd ground and inspected the Covid ICU at Central Hospital of BCCL in Jagjivan Nagar and Sahid Nirmal Mahto Memorial Medical College and Hospital.

During the last leg of his inspection drive, Singh reviewed the testing of passengers arriving in Dhanbad through other states at Bartand based Bus Depot and the arrangements made at the district control room.

“The inspection drive was aimed at beefing up the Covid treatment facilities as well as intensifying Covid testing drive as per which we instructed the authorities to carry out Covid test of all patients arriving at four prominent hospitals including Central Hospital, SNMMCH, Sadar Hospital and Tata Central Hospital Jamadoba,” said Singh.

“In Jamadoba as well as other hotspots we are conducting tests of all persons within 200-300 meter of the hot spot zones,” he further added.