Dumka in Corona tentacles, 10 new cases, total touches 125 positives in Jharkhand

Ranchi, May 5: Ten new COVID-19 cases were reported in Jharkhand on Tuesday, taking the state tally to 125. No new cases came up on May 3 and May 4 and number of positives remained 115 till Monday but Tuesday saw a jump of ten new cases.  

“Jharkhand’s COVID-19 hotspot Hindpiri has reported eight positive cases while two other cases have come from Dumka which is the new district to be added to the list of eleven others in Jharkhand which have Coronavirus cases.  The state’s count has reached 125,” State Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said.

He informed that of the total samples which were tested on Tuesday, six positive cases came from MGM Hospital testing facility in Jamshedpur, two from RIMS Ranchi and two from PMCH Dhanbad taking the total COVID-19 positive cases to 125 with a jump of ten cases on Tuesday. It is for the very first time that MGM Hospital Jamshedpur reported six Coronavirus cases. Dumka on Tuesday became the 13th district in Jharkhand to be infected with Coronavirus. The health department of Jharkhand breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday when nine Coronavirus patients of Hindpiri locality in Ranchi tested negative for the virus.     

Out of the total 125 positive cases so far, 91 are from Ranchi, 10 from Bokaro, four from Deoghar, three from Hazaribagh, Palamau and Garhwa, two each from Dhanbad, Giridih, Jamtara, Simdega and Dumka.

One person from Godda has also tested positive for coronavirus.

Jharkhand has reported three deaths due to coronavirus so far. The first case of the pandemic was reported from Hindpiri on March 31, when a 22-year-old Malaysian woman, who had been to Delhi�s Tablighi Jamaat congregation, tested positive. She has since been discharged after being recorded from the dreaded disease.

Ranchi has been designated as �Red Zone� while nine other districts of Jharkhand are in the �Orange Zone� of novel coronavirus. The rest 14 districts are in the Green Zone.

The Centre has classified districts with high load of coronavirus cases or which have a high growth rate of the disease in the red zones, while those with considerably fewer cases of the respiratory infection fall in orange zones. Districts with no coronavirus cases are categorised as green zones.

Capital Ranchi which accounts for 91 out of a total of 125 Covid cases in Jharkhand is the only district to fall under red zone in the state.

The Hindpiri locality in Ranchi is worst affected by the virus. This hotspot area is being manned by the CRPF personnel.

Red Zone Ranchi has recorded 91 Corona positive cases while the COVID-19 cases in hotspot Hindpiri have jumped to 67.

Thirteen districts of Jharkhand have been affected from the deadly virus. Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Giridih, Hazaribagh, Simdega, Garhwa, Palamau. Jamtara, Dumka, Godda. Koderma and Deoghar are the other affected districts.  

A total of 46,711 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in India so far. 13,161 persons have recovered or migrated, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.

There are 31,967 active cases of COVID-19 in the country at present. 1,583 people have lost their lives due to the virus in the country till date.