Reports of 26 samples collected from Hazaribag reached here after 14 days. The HMCH management received 26 positive reports on Friday night, out of them five persons have already discharged on the basis of TrueNat negative reports.
At present there are 52 active cases in the district, out of which 33 patients are in HMCH and 19 are in Covid 19 hospital Arogyam. The total number of cases reached to 110 on Saturday.
Hazaribag DC Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh said that at present total 110 cases have surfaced in the district, out of them 58 have discharged by hospitals. Now, there are 52 active cases.
He further said that in 26 new patients reports came positive. They are one each from Sadar, Katkamsandi, Daru, Tatijharia , Bishnugarh and Keradari and Barkatha blocksof Hazaribag district.
All were already quarantined in the centers at Silwar and ITI.
The hospital management has sent total 3380 collections from Hazaribag, out of them 2968 reports came negative. The 312 samples are still pending.
Singh said that two containment zones formed by the administration. One is in Barbadha of Barkatha block and second one in Govindpur village of Keradari block. He has given the hint for more containment areas in adjacent of town areas.
He said the newly set up testing machine TrueNat. The hospital management has tested 182 samples.
In last 24 hours 40 samples tested, all found negative. The second TrueNat machine has been working for last three days.