Nine from Kadma area test positive, Jamshedpur tally at 395

THE ADMINISTRATION HAS IDENTIFIED THREE COVID PATIENTS WHOSE ORIGINAL SOURCES OF INFECTION WERE STILL NOT KNOWN

JAMSHEDPUR: Fourteen new Covid-19 cases took Jamshedpur’s tally to 395 on Tuesday evening, leaving 145 active cases in the district, officials said. Altogether 250 Covid-19 patients were cured and discharged in the district till Monday night.

“Nine persons from Kadma alone tested positive on Tuesday while three of the 14 new patients had a travel history of Delhi and one had a travel history of the United States of America (USA). Other positive patients were from Sankosai, Mango, Baridih, Parsudih and Potka,” Dr Maheshwar Prasad, Jamshedpur civil surgeon, said on Tuesday.

Five female members of the family of a theft-accused Covid-19 patient from Tuiladungri (Golmuri) tested positive in Jamshedpur on Monday night. One of his neighbours also tested positive on Monday night, making it seven patients in a single Covid-19 chain. The said patient had tested positive on June 20 while being quarantined in the now re-opened Sakchi jail. He had surrendered in the Jamshedpur court on June 19.

“Containment zone was made near a school in Tuiladungri after the theft-accused had tested positive and all his family members and neighbours were in quarantine. So, there’s no need to have a containment zone there. All the six testing positive Monday night have been admitted to Covid-19 hospitals.

A total of 14 persons tested positive on Monday night of which seven were women. Four of the 14 patients had travel histories while 10 others were detected through contact tracing,” said Dr Prasad.

Another person also tested positive from Kadma locality who had come in contact with a Covid-19 patient from Shyam Path in Kadma testing positive after returning from Noida. Another woman along with her family member from Barudih area also tested positive after their return from Rewadi in Haryana. Two persons from Bistupur area were also detected as Covid-19 patients after their return from Mumbai.

Another woman from Agrico also tested positive Monday night, taking the tally of the single Covid-19 chain to 13 patients, linked to a Covid-19 patient from Tata Steel’s tube division with no information of his original source of infection.

Jamshedpur deputy commissioner (DC) Ravishankar Shukla said the administration has so far identified three Covid-19 patients in the city whose original sources of Covid-19 infection were still not known.

“One of them was from tube division, one from Telco area and the third one from Birsanagar area. Contact tracing, including those of truckers coming to tube division, is on to find out the original sources of infection,” said Shukla.

Dr Alok Ranjan, heading the contact tracing team, said five of the Covid-19 patients were tube division workers without any travel history, while eight more persons in contact with them have tested positive so far.

“Another person testing positive yesterday was detected through contact tracing in Mango while another person staying in paid quarantine at a hotel in Bistupur after coming from outside also tested positive Monday night,” said Dr Ranjan.