More than 45,000 people, including travellers and migrants from other states, have been screened in Jharkhand for COVID-19 so far and put in home quarantine after they were found asymptomatic, data compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) revealed on Thursday.
While Jharkhand is among the few States in India that have not reported even a single case of Coronavirus so far, the health machinery here has been collecting samples of suspected patients every day. On Thursday, health officials collected samples of 27 suspects and seven of them tested negative. The lab test results of the remaining 20 samples are awaited, NHM officials said.
By now, samples of at least 137 suspects have been tested in Jharkhand, and none of them have come out positive. As per figures compiled by NHM, as many as 801 passengers have travelled to Jharkhand from Coronavirus-affected foreign countries, and 141 of them have passed the quarantine period of 28 days. None of the remaining passengers under observation have shown symptoms of the viral infection, health sources said.
The State has set up isolation centres at Government and private hospitals across Jharkhand. According to Government figures shared on Thursday, there are a total of 1469 beds in quarantine centres at various hospitals here. The State, at present, has two sample collection centres – Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi and Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital in Jamshedpur. While India has been in a lockdown since March 23 midnight, the death toll in the country rose to 13 and the number of cases increased to 649 on Thursday. COVID-19, a virus that was first reported in Wuhan City of China, has wreaked havoc across the globe. Some of the superpowers in world, including China and USA, have been struggling to tackle the emergency situation caused by lethal virus.