One Hindpiri resident tests positive, state tally now 161

Ranchi/Bokaro: After a gap of five days, Ranchi registered one more positive case of Covid-19 from Hindpiri area on Monday. Three more migrant workers, who returned from Surat in Gujarat on May 7, tested positive for the virus in Giridih late on Sunday night, taking the total number of cases in the state to 161. According official figures, two patients in Deogarh district have cured. The state has now 79 active cases and 80 patients have recovered.
State health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said, “We have detected one positive case of Covid-19 in the state on Monday. A total 1,061 samples were tested on Monday and only a 25-year-old woman from Ranchi’s Hindpiri area has turned out to be positive.”
In Giridih, the district administration imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPc and started sanitization drives in the villages of the three returning migrants who tested positive. Of the three, two are residents of Goraidih and Kenduatanr villages under Birni block and the other belongs to Remba village under Jamua block. They were in institutional quarantine in their respective villages since their return.
Talking to TOI, Giridih DC Rahul Sinha said, “Three male migrant workers, aged 39, 22 and 31, tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday night. They were shifted to the Covid hospital in Giridih for treatment. The trio returned from Surat in Gujarat on May 7 and were housed at quarantine centres in their villages. Soon after they tested positive for the coronavirus, we have imposed Section 144 of CrPC in their villages and sanitization has started. Family members of all three patients have also been shifted to institutional quarantine as a precautionary measure and their samples will be collected for testing.”
Sinha said two of the three patients had returned to Giridih by a Shramik special train which arrived at Dhanbad. The administration has alerted its Dhanbad counterparts to start contact tracing of all passengers who travelled in the particular train.
Giridih civil surgeon Dr Awadesh Kumar Sinha said, “All three patients are being treated at the Covid hospital and they remain asymptomatic.”
On the recovery of two patients in Deoghar, the district’s DC, Nancy Sahay, said, “Two migrants from Sarwan block had tested positive on May 2 and they have recovered on Monday after their subsequent samples tested negative. We have also conducted their chest X-ray and both are in good shape. As a precautionary measure, we have also sent a third set of swab samples for testing. After we get the results, arrangements will be made for their early release.”