Ranchi RIMS nurse in two Corona positives, Jharkhand total 127

Ranchi, May 6: Two new COVID-19 cases were reported in Jharkhand on Wednesday, taking the state tally to 127. The first case was reported from RIMS Hospital where a Nurse tested Corona positive while the second case came up from Ranchi’s Hotspot Hindpiri. The nurse was posted at the COVID-19 ward of RIMS Ranchi. The health department is looking after their travel history while samples of their family members are being taken. Earlier, five nurses of Ranchi Sadar Hospital and a lab technician of RIMS have tested Coronavirus positive and are being treated at COVID-19 centre.   

�Jharkhand�s COVID-19 hotspot Hindpiri has reported one positive cases while second case have come from RIMS hospital where a nurse tested virus positive. The state�s count has reached 127,� State Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said.

Earlier on Tuesday Dumka 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 127 positive cases so far, 93 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 93 out of a total of 127 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.

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. �

Red Zone Ranchi has recorded 93 Corona positive cases while the COVID-19 cases in hotspot Hindpiri have jumped to 68.