The steel city’s Kadma locality has become a Covid hotspot with the district health department detecting over 80 positive cases in the last two days.

Health department officials confirmed that Kadma locality has around 660 active cases making it the top Covid hotspot.

The Kadma market was sealed completely on Saturday after detection of 15 fresh cases. On Friday, 30 positive cases were found in the market.

With the surge in cases, as many as eight containment zones were declared in residential areas close to the Kadma market.

Local civic body - Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) on Saturday put up barricades from all sides preventing entry of people to Kadma market.

Barricades were also put up on the Kadma main road restricting movement of vehicles.

Telco with 530 active cases is the second hotspot followed by Mango (410 active cases) , Sakchi ( 400 active cases) and Sonari which has 375 active cases.

Ravi Bharti, a senior official of Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee said that around 450 shops have been shut at the Kadma market and that the vegetable vendors and fruit sellers have been shifted to the adjoining Ganesh Puja Maidan.

District surveillance officer Sahir Pal blamed people for not adhering to Covid protocols.

"People have not stopped moving around outside even as the state government has imposed a seven day lockdown to break the Covid chain, "said Pal apprehending a further spike in positive cases.

As per the records of the health department out of 4,891 people who underwent Covid tests in East Singhbhum on Friday 810 were found positive.

As many as 16 deaths, the highest so far also took place in the past 24 hours.

Maximum number of Covid cases were found in Kadma, Telco, Sonari, Mango and Bistupur.