60 new cases, Seraikela records biggest spike

Ranchi: As many as 60 positive cases of Covid 19 infections were detected in 10 districts of Jharkhand on Tuesday. Along with the four cases detected late on Monday night, the state’s virus caseload rose to 2,490, of which 591 are active, 1,884 have recovered (including 35 on Tuesday) while 15 patients have died.
With 25 new cases, Seraikela-Kharsawan district recorded its biggest single-day spike in new. Dhanbad recorded 14 cases, East Singhbhum 11, Sahibganj three, Deoghar two and Ranchi, Ramgarh and Dumka one each. Of the new infections detected, 24 are migrants. In all, 1,974 migrants have been tested positive so far in the state.
East Singhbhum district, which was Covid-free till the second week of May, now has the most number of infections in Jharkhand (392). Of all the 566 active cases active statewide, the district also has the highest share of 175 cases.
Dhanbad, East Singhbhum, Giridih, Gumla, Hazaribag, Koderma and Ranchi account for more than 70% of Jharkhand’s active case load. While Ranchi has 53 active cases, 165 patients have recovered so far. Pakur and Godda, which have one active case each, are headed towards becoming Covid-free again.
While the state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) put the Covid-19 tally in Ramgarh at one, the district administration said three CISF jawans, deployed at NTPC’s under-construction thermal power plant in Patratu, tested positive for the virus.
Deputy commissioner Sandeep Singh said the personnel were at a government quarantine facility in Officers’ Club in Patratu. “Their samples were sent for tests on June 28,” Singh said. The jawans had arrived separately from Buxar (Bihar), Gorakhpur (UP) and Andhra Pradesh recently.
With inputs from NK Agarwal in Ramgarh