Another Hindpiri man tests positive for Covid-19

Gaurav Pandey | TNN | Apr 16, 2020, 06:00 IST

Ranchi: A 50-year-old man from Ranchi’s Hindpiri locality tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, taking the city’s tally to 14 and the state’s to 28 (26 active, while two have died). He has been shifted to the Covid-19 block at Rims and five members of his family have been moved to the isolation ward at the same hospital. Ranchi SDM Lokesh Mishra said, “Samples of all six members of this family was collected on Monday. The patient’s family members will be retested for the viral infection.”
Sources said the man regularly visits Hindpiri’s mosques, where members of the Tablighi Jamaat earlier found positive, had stayed. State health department secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, “The patient was detected positive after his samples were collected during a contact-tracing exercise on Monday.”