Jamshedpur, Aug 21: The deadly corona virus has now started spreading at�Ghaghidih Central Jail at Karandih in Parsudih. In all a dozen persons, including three prisoners of the central jail have been tested for Coronavirus positive. The jail management put the three in isolation inside the jail on Friday.� The remaining nine infected persons are the jail guards and administrative staff. From about 60 staff, nine were tested positive on Thursday. �
According to information the three convicts reported being Coronavirus positive were among the five such convicts who have already served their sentence for more than 20 years and were given a nod for being released from the central jail by Prisoners’ Review Committee, Ranchi on Wednesday.
Notably, the Ghaghidih Central Jail is spread over an area of 20 acres — set up on as large an area as Birsa Munda Central Jail in Hotwar, Ranchi. Spread over 20 acres of land, the Ghaghidih Central Jail has a prisoners’ capacity of 1,447.
Despite being the green, clean and steel city, Jamshedpur has emgered as a corona hot bed with positive cases. In only 100 days, the positive cases have reached a mark of about 4800. On an average three people re dying daily from past 15 days in Jamshedpur. With three more deaths today the figures reached to 168 and in TMH alone 149 people have died due to the deadly virus.
The district administration has launched steps on a war-footing to control virus spread which threatens to destroy the city.
As of now no medicine has been evolved for an effective treatment of Covid, but people who have recovered from COVID have antibodies — proteins the body uses to fight off infections — to the disease in their blood. The blood from people who have recovered is called convalescent plasma which is the liquid portion of the blood.
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. However, with the arrival of migrants the figure reached 500 mark and now it is about to reach 5000. Most of the patients do not have travel history. Several other persons tested positive have travel history from Maharashtra, Delhi, Gurugram and Chennai.
The Deputy Commissioner Suraj Kumar has directed to increase the number of ambulances and paid quarantine centers (hotels). He said that all the institutional quarantine centers or paid quarantine centers should have food, cleanliness and other basic fac
