The deadly virus corona is spreading its wings in the city. Four more deaths took place at Tata Main Hospital ( TMH) on Monday. Till now, the city has witnessed 11 deaths while TMH alone has witnessed 14 deaths.
Those who died of Covid on Monday include three women and all different localities of the city. An 83-year-old woman from Kadma who had been admitted at the Tata Main Hospital's Covid ward on Sunday, died this morning. An 80-year-old man from Baridih locality who was admitted at the hospital on Saturday died this morning.
Two more women who were of 60 years and 51 years from Mango and Sonari, admitted on Saturday and Wednesday respectively succumbed to the Covid at the Tata Main Hospital this morning.
With the four fresh deaths taking place on Monday, the total number of Covid deaths in East Singhbhum district rose to 11 and at the Tata Main Hospital to 14 as three Covid patients who were from outside the district were undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Meanwhile, concerned over the situation, the administration has sealed the offices of the two civic bodies on Monday after sending most of the staff of these offices to home quarantine. Positive cases were found in Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) office as well as Mango Notified Area Committee (MNAC) on Sunday night.
With the civic bodies' staff quarantined, the work of body disposal which is carried out by the JNAC has become a tough task. With Monsoon rain in full bloom, the threat of water-borne diseases is also looming large.
" It is becoming challenging for us. As our field workers are getting the bodies disposed of under the supervision of City Manager, Ravi Bharti at the Subarnarekha crematorium. Though Bharti is also an office staff, he has been kept off from the quarantine as he is apparently healthy as of now," said an official of JNAC.
The Kolhan Division which was under green zone, came under coronavirus map with two persons testing positive at Chakulia, under East Singhbhum district on May 12. Several other persons tested positive have travel history from Maharashtra, Delhi, Gurugram and Chennai.
The city witnessed its first COVID death when a 71-year-old man who was a resident of Sonari died at the Tata Main Hospital on July 4. About an hour later an 88-year-old woman who was admitted at the Tata Main Hospital died of pneumonia at the hospital. The hospital authority sent the swab sample of the deceased for examination to the MGM Medical College, where the test report came out Covid-19 positive at about 11 pm.