The Steel City on Thursday reported a third Covid-19 positive case. The man who has been tested for coronavirus positive had returned from Kolkata on May 11.
He was in the isolation ward of the MGM Medical College Hospital ever since returning here and finally his swab test was tested positive. He was reported positive on Thursday afternoon. The person is a resident of Baridih.
East Singhbhum deputy commissioner, Ravi Shanker Shukla confirmed about the detection of the third case, and confirmed that the person tested Covid positive is a resident of the steel city.
" The man who has been tested for coronavirus positive on Thursday afternoon is a resident of steel city and had returned from Kolkata on May 11. He didn’t go to his house but rather went directly to the hospital for test. He was in the isolation ward of the MGM Medical College Hospital ever since returning here and finally his swab test was tested positive," said Shukla
The deputy commissioner informed the patient in question has been shifted from the medical college hospital's isolation ward to the TMH's Covid ward late in the afternoon.
According to sources in the administration, the fresh Covid patient whose age is yet to be ascertained yet used to work as a labourer in Kolkata and had returned to his home town here by road on Monday. As the news spread, the district administration team to his house and sealed the surroundings.
"As per the information gathered the patient is a resident of Baridih Bustee and he had not gone home and instead came to MGM Medical College Hospital at Sakchi and had requested for a Covid test, given his deteriorating health condition. He had been kept in the medical college hospital's isolation ward along with 61 other suspected persons. His swab sample had been taken for a test on Monday and eventually he was tested positive on Thursday afternoon," said a senior officer in the district health department.
“ We are keeping an eye on those quarantine and also sending teams for identifying fresh suspected cases. There are several persons who have returned from different states and have been quarantined. We want them to follow guidelines,” said Shukla.