The corona pandemic on Monday entered the residential office of Ranchi Deputy Commissioner with infecting three staff of the office. The entire office complex has been sanitized after three staff members were tested positive for Corona positive. Deputy Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan underwent a corona test as a precautionary measure.
Apart from DC, corona test of all the officials and employees working in the office was done. To prevent the spread of corona infection, all the officials and personnel in contact have also been instructed to get their corona test.
This is not the first time that the pandemic has entered government offices, on earlier occasions several offices at Project Bhawan and Nepal House were sealed after staff/officers working in the office were found infected with coronavirus. The virus has even entered Raj Bhavan infecting the State's first citizen and Governor Droupadi Murmu, who was tested positive on Saturday and was later shifted to Raj Bhavan.
Recently, with the rise in Covid 19 cases in the State particularly in Ranchi in the past few weeks, the Jharkhand State Bar Council last week decided to close down all Bar buildings in the State.
The Bar Association decided to take the action for the purpose of breaking the chain of corona infection. As per Bar Association decision no lawyer, his co-workers and any person will be allowed to enter the bar buildings. No one will be allowed to stand around the bar building.
Meanwhile, in another development the District Public Relation office on Monday issued a notice postponing the army recruitment drive scheduled on April 25. The district administration issued the notice on the directions of Union Government.
Earlier, on Sunday the state government in order to curb the sudden rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in Jharkhand, chief minister Hemant Soren cancelled for the next one month the civil service examination of Jharkhand Public Service Commission’s (JPSC) scheduled on May 2 and others cutting across schools, colleges, industrial training institutes among others till further notice.
Covid-19 cases in Jharkhand are on rise at fast speed as on Sunday around 3800 fresh corona cases were reported from different parts of the State. Around 50 persons lost their lives battling infection in Jharkhand.