Antigen testing drive in E Singhbhum

Jamshedpur: Alarmed by the surge in cases, the district administration on Thursday organised rapid antigen testing camps in Golmuri, Sidhgora, Telco, Burma mines, Baridih, Birsanagar and Sitaramdera to break the chain of transmission.
“We plan to curb the virus spread by organising such camps and testing people randomly,” civil surgeon R N Jha said.
The administration has identified close to 20 hotspots from where a high number of Covid cases have been reported and needless to say, the authorities plan to include those areas in the ongoing testing drive.
“The drive is aimed at reaching out to more and more people and it will continue in the days to come” ADM (law and order) N K Lal, who is also nodal officer for district surveillance, said.
“We have not fixed any target for conducting the sample testing as we want more and more people to benefit from the drive,” Lal added.
Over 5,000 samples have been tested in the past 48 hours across Jamshedpur.
As of Thursday morning, East Singhbhum had a total of 9,554 cases, of which 3.023 were active.