The Covid situation in the State is becoming murkier day-by-day. On Wednesday, the State's biggest health hub, Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) witnessed a corona explosion as 179 fresh cases were found at RIMS. On Wednesday, 370 people from RIMS got a corona test done in which 179 people were found positive which includes dozens of doctors and nurses. Meanwhile, a total of 1493 people were tested for corona at RIMS Hospital on Wednesday, in which 245 people were found corona positive. At RIMS on Wednesday, one person reportedly died due to infection. Sources said that the deceased, a resident of Lalgutwa died of infection on Wednesday leading to panic at the health hub. Not only has there been a surge in cases at RIMS, but at Sadar hospital too there has been a surge in cases. The number of Covid patients today rose to 16 from 13 at Sadar Hospital Ranchi.
The medical officer coordinating with the media, Dr Ajit Kumar, informed this saying with the rise in the number of patients, the number of total vacant oxygen beds at the hospital has reduced to 204 from 207. Dr Ajit, however, said that none of the patients are either in ICU or on high oxygen flow.
As the infection rate is high, more than more doctors and health officials are getting infected. As per the health department report, more than 25 doctors and dozens more medical staff are infected with the virus.This week is seeing an explosion of Covid 19 infections in the State with a daily tally of more than 2000, with Ranchi and East Singhbhum accounting for more than 50 per cent of cases. On Tuesday 2681 fresh cases were reported across the State with 1196 cases alone from State Capital Ranchi. With the surge in cases and the active cases too has gone up. On Tuesday, as per the health bulletin released by the department the number of active cases has crossed to 7681.
While on one hand there has been a surge in corona cases, the health department has increased testing too. On an average daily 32,000 samples of corona are tested, but on Tuesday 55010 samples were tested. The test has increased by 1.72 times than the cases too have increased by 1.81 times. Followed by Ranchi the maximum cases are from East Singhbhum. In East Singhbhum 402 fresh cases were reported while at the same time Steel City (Jamshedpur) reported two corona deaths on Monday/Tuesday.
Moreover, the first corona death in the current wave was reported at Dhanbad on Wednesday. A 66 year old man died of infection. According to a senior doctor of SNMMCH who refused to be quoted officially, the victim was admitted to the Cath lab of the hospital on December 29 following a heart attack. The man was tested positive and was undergoing treatment. However, his condition worsened due to corona and he died during treatment, said the doctor.