Ranchi, May 2: Two more persons on Saturday tested positive for COVID-19 in Deoghar district, taking the total number of coronavirus cases in Jharkhand to 115, health officials said. Deoghar Deputy Commissioner Nancy Sahay said swabs of two persons from Sarwan block in Narangi and Dakai village were found positive for the virus. The total positive cases in Deoghar district has risen to 4. DC informed that both the corona positive patients have been shifted from quarantine centre to isolation ward of Maa Lalita Hospital. One of the patient had returned from Kharagpur while other from Haryana and were kept at quarantine centre.� Earlier on May 1 two persons tested positive for Coronavirus in Ranchi which took the total case in the state capital to 83. �
Out of the total 115 positive cases so far, 83 are from Ranchi, 10 from Bokaro, four from Deoghar, three from Hazaribagh, Palamau and Garhwa, two each from Dhanbad, Giridih Jamtara and Simdega.
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. So far 22 infected persons have been discharged from hospitals, the officials said.
Ranchi has been designated as “Red Zone” while nine other districts of Jharkhand are in the “Orange Zone” of novel coronavirus, a senior health official said. The rest 14 districts are in the Green Zone”, Principal Secretary (Health) Nitin Madan Kulkarni said.
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 83 out of a total of 115 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 83 Corona positive cases while the COVID-19 cases in hotspot Hindpiri have jumped to 59.
Ten districts of Jharkhand have been affected from the deadly virus. Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Giridih, Hazaribagh, Simdega, Garhwa, Palamau. Jamtara and Deoghar are the other affected districts.
