Caution to be exercised for at least next seven days
Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, Oct 30: After a long hiatus, the citizens of East Singhbhum district hjave something to cheer about. No positive cases of COVID-19 infection have been reported after passage of 72 hours from the Durga idol immersion day. The news is a relief for the district residents, administration and the health department. It may be mentioned here that in the past 72 hours 8,726 people were tested for COVID out of who 131 turned out to be C positive.
The next week is being considered crucial. The district health department has increased the COVID testing frequency. A target of conducting tests on 29,500 people in the next 10 days has been fixed. As per the target the daily tests will be conducted, on an average of 2,950 people. The 10 day test schedule was launched on Friday. The Blocks have been allotted separate targets with directives based on figures of the number of coronavirus positive cases detected in each Block. Blocks where more positive cases have been traced, the target for tests have been doubled. Till date, a majority of corona positive cases has been detected in urban regions.
District Surveillance Officer Dr Sahir Pal said, �The number of COVID-19 positive cases have not increased since 72 hours after the immersion processions but the next seven days will provide a clear picture if the Corona positive cases have increased or not.�
It may be mentioned that in spite of the district administration�s best efforts to contain the crowd of Durga Puja revelers, the numbers of pandal hoppers and wayfarers had increased on Navami and Vijaya Dashami days. The district health department hjad said that it would take 72 hours to measure the coronavirus status. But after 72 hours no positive cases had been found to add to the existing figures. But in some other states including the union territory of Delhi, that corona count has swelled to disconcerting levels.
