Those willing to participate in the year-end bash at major hotels and clubs in the steel city will have to undergo Covid test before entry into the event venue.

Moreover, if a single Coronavirus positive case is detected from any place as such, the celebrations will have to stopped instantly.

East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Suraj Kumar on Thursday announced these strict measures following a review meeting over the spike of Covid cases here in Jamshedpur as the city is gearing up for the year-end and new year celebrations.

Moreover, the deputy commissioner has shot mails to the state health secretary, pleading a fresh guideline to be implemented here in the steel city in the light of spike in the Covid cases.

"The Covid cases are rising at an alarm speed in the steel city. Though we can not ban the celebrations as per existing Covid protocol of the state government, we can go for random sample tests for Covid which we will follow at the major hotels and clubs during the year-end celebrations, " said Dhalbhum sub-divisional officer Sandeep Kumar Meena while talking to The Telegraph Online.

Meena said the district administration is expecting some fresh directive from the state health department by late in the night and if no new directive comes, the administration will go ahead with the decision as mentioned above.

The SDO informed that soon after the review meeting was over late in the afternoon, the district health department swung into action for setting up medical teams which will be carrying out sample tests for Covid of the revellers at the entrance of hotels and clubs on Friday.

During the past 24 hours, 43 fresh Coronavirus positive cases were reported from the city, sending the district health department officials into tizzy.

Concerned with the surge in the Covid cases here in the city, the East Singhbhum district administration convened a meeting of health department officials and others concerned so that spread of Covid could be prevented further.

The year-end bash are organised majorly at over a dozen hotels and clubs where large number of revellers, including women and children participate till the new year.

Those matter in the district administration maintained that a surge in the Covid cases was due to gathering of picnickers at places of tourist attractions in and around the city and if they do not curb the year-end celebrations, then there could be blast in the Covid cases here.