At least eight new cases of Covid-19 infection were reported in Jharkhand on Wednesday – four from Giridih and two each from Ranchi and Koderma, health officials said. One of the two cases is Ranchi is from Mandar, a block in suburban Ranchi. The other is from Hindpiri – the only large containment zone in Jharkhand, officials added.
“Four new cases were reported by Wednesday evening. Two of them are from Ranchi and the remaining two from Koderma,” said Health Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni. The remaining four cases from Giridih were reported late in the night, said officials. With Wednesday’s findings, the total number of cases in Jharkhand shot up to 181, they added.
The findings also take the total count of active cases in Koderma to four. Most of the new cases reported in the past one week were migrant workers who returned home, health officials said. The rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in rural Jharkhand is also a cause for concern for the health machinery here, they added.
Several migrant workers returned to Koderma on Tuesday. Health officials said that the two suspects who tested positive for Covid-19 in Koderma are also migrant workers.
According to National Health Mission (NHM), at least 87 of the 181 patients here — nearly 50 per cent– have recovered from the viral infection and discharged from hospital. Interestingly, most of them did not show any of the Covid-19 symptoms during their treatment, said doctors from Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi.
While 87 of the 181 cases reported in Jharkhand by Wednesday evening are in the age bracket of 11 to 30 years, 59 are in the age bracket of 31 to 50 years, the NHM report said. At least nine children, below the age of 10 years, have been infected by the virus in Jharkhand so far, the report added.
The Government has collected samples of around 29,000 suspects so far, and tested 25769 of them, an NHM bulletin said. As many as 1102 samples were tested on Wednesday and four of them came out positive, the bulletin added.