Locals raised a ruckus at Hunaman Nagar in the State capital on Sunday suspecting that a man, who returned from Koderma and moved in at a house in the locality, might have attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi.
Some locals gathered outside the man’s residence and raised slogans, sources said. They asked the man to get tested first and then return to the neighbourhood under Sukhdeonagar Police Station.
Dy SP Kotwali, Ajit Kumar Vimal informed that the person returned from Koderma on Saturday. When his neighbours got to know the fact that he returned from Koderma where one Coronavirus infected case came to light, then they suspected that he is also connected with the infected person, he added.
After getting information of the uproar Sukhdeonagar Police Station team reached on the spot and after consultation with senior District Administrative officers they sent the person at Khelgaon for his sample test, said Vimal.
A 22 year old youth Amarjeet Singh, neighbor of the suspected person informed that the family of the person is living here since last two to two and half months but the suspected person returned from Koderma on Saturday. "When we learnt that he has returned from Koderma, we wanted to make sure that he gets tested. After intervention of Police the person was sent to Khelgaon for sample test," he added.
It may be mentioned here that the Coronavirus positive case of Koderma is actually a 22-year-old youth originally from Jahandih under Bodgo Panchayat of Rajdhanwar Police Station area in Giridih District. The youth had returned to the village from Mumbai along with his three companions on March 23 by Kurla-Hatia Express train. After landing at Koderma station, he went straight to his village.
After falling ill in Giridih, the patient met a quack who assured to treat him but failed. When his health did not improve, he reached a private doctor's clinic at Bandhan Chowk in Markacho. The doctor gave him medicine for three days. Even after taking the medicine, he did not recover, then on April 3 he reached the Government hospital in Markacho from where he was sent to Koderma Sadar Hospital. On April 6 his samples were sent to RIMS for investigation.
Nine members of the youth’s family have been sent to quarantine center by Giridih District Administration after the youth was found to be Corona positive. At the same time, the doctor who treated the young man in Markacho has been sent to the home quarantine and the youth has been shifted to Kovid 19 Holy Family Hospital.
On Friday night, when the inquiry report of 184 samples came, three persons were found positive. Among the new cases that have come out, there is also one from Hindpiri. Another Coronavirus positive patient is from Hazaribagh district, while the third patient is from Koderma district. Report of 181 people came negative in the investigation report.
Now the number of patients infected with Coronavirus has increased to 17 in Jharkhand. The first case of Coronavirus patient was found in Hindpiri area in Ranchi.
The virus spread to eight people through the Malaysian woman who was associated with Tabligi Jamaat.