Bengal migrant tests positive after death in accident; Jharkhand toll 4

RANCHI/SINDRI/JAMSHEDPUR: A migrant worker from West Bengal tested positive for the novel coronavirus hours after he died while being operated upon at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) in Ranchi on Tuesday morning. The 22-year-old was among the 77 migrants from Bengal onboard a Mumbai-Kolkata bus that met with an accident on Ranchi-Gola road in Ramgarh district on Monday morning.
Although the man did not die because of any complication caused by the virus, the state health department has added him to the tally of Covid-19 casualties in the state. In Jharkhand, four persons have now died with the virus.
“About 25 migrants had sustained serious injuries in the accident and their samples were collected as soon as they were brought to this hospital on Monday afternoon. This patient was admitted in the neuro surgery department and was getting treatment at our isolation centre,” said a RIMS official. Rims director Singh said they had taken all precautions and worn PPEs while attending to the injured as they were coming from a red zone.
Meanwhile, Jharkhand recorded 31 fresh Covid cases, including the accident victim and two healthcare workers from Dhanbad, on Tuesday. This is the second biggest single-day spike in the state since May 20, when the state recorded 42 cases. Jharkhand now has 436 coronavirus cases, of which 256 are active and 176 have recovered. On Tuesday, West Singhbhum and Gumla recorded six cases each; Dhanbad, Garhwa and Hazaribag registered three each; Palamu, East Singhbhum, Koderma and Khunti recorded two each and Ranchi and Lohardaga districts one each. All six patients in West Singhbhum are migrants, “Two each are from Chaibassa and Ananadpur blocks and one from and Manoharpur and Jagaganathpur blocks. All of them have returned from Maharashtra last week,” West Singhbhum DC Arava Rajkamal said.
In Dhanbad, apart from the two health workers posted at the isolation centre at Dhanbad district hospital, a 22-year-old woman who had returned from New Delhi tested positive on Tuesday,” said Dhanbad DC Amit Kumar.
In Garhwa all three who tested positive had returned from Mumbai and are residents of Sadar block. In Palamu, the patients returned from Maharshtra and Madhya Pradesh. “Both are 35 years of age and are residents of Pandwa block,” Palamu DC Shantanu Agrahari said. The two cases detected in East Singhbhum include an elderly man from Purulia and a migrant from Mumbai. In Koderma a brother-sister duo aged 14 and 12 who returned home with their family members from Mumbai tested positive, said DC Ramesh Gholap.