Jamshedpur, July 27: The city witnessed 23 deaths due to corona in just 26 days. The virus is spreading its wings in the city. On Sunday alone, 124 positive cases were reported.
One Monday a 49 year old man and a resident of Mango died at Tata Main Hospital ( TMH) on Monday. Till now, the city has witnessed 23 deaths while TMH alone has witnessed 32 deaths.
The Kolhan Division which was under green zone, came under coronavirus map with two persons testing positive at Chakulia, under East Singhbhum district on May 12. Several other persons tested positive have travel history from Maharashtra, Delhi, Gurugram and Chennai.
The city witnessed its first COVID death when a 71-year-old man who was a resident of Sonari died at the Tata Main Hospital on July 4. About an hour later an 88-year-old woman who was admitted at the Tata Main Hospital died of pneumonia at the hospital. The hospital authority sent the swab sample of the deceased for examination to the MGM Medical College, where the test report came out Covid-19 positive at about 11 pm.
Meanwhile, the district administration has chalked out plans to carry out special cleanliness and sanitation drives in all markets on weekends when all shops will be shut to contain the spread of COVID-19. The plan is to keep markets shut in phase-wise manner and launch such drives.
During the closure, the civic bodies will clean, sanitise, fumigate and disinfect the marketplaces as a precautionary and safety measure to contain the spread of the deadly COVID-19, with the city and district reporting a number of fresh positive cases almost every other day for the past couple of weeks.
The administration is working on plans to sanitise other key markets by keeping the areas shut during the weekend. The idea is also to maintain social distancing.
