Coronavirus: Jharkhand’s First death, 8 fresh cases reported

Janjivan Bureau / Tenughat : A 65-year-old man died on Thursday after being infected with the novel coronavirus in Bokaro. This is Jharkhand’s first death due to COVID-19. The patient died on Wednesday night, Bokaro District Chief Medical Officer Ashok Kumar Pathak said.The infected patient was admitted at BGH hospital after he developed symptoms. According to the state’s first Health Secretary four more confirmed cases of COVID 19 have been reported in the state, out of which one from an infected family in Ranchi and three others from an infected family in Bokaro. Till now, the total number of cases in the state in 13.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said India has recorded 540 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. 17 people have died in the same period. With this the total number of coronavirus cases in India stands at 5734 while 166 people have died. The ministry has said there are 5095 active cases, 473 cured/discharged and 166 deaths.
The elderly man, who hailed from Saram village, under the Gomia’s Block. Saram village merely one KM from Sub Divisional head quarter Tenughat. Patient was kept in the isolation ward of the Bokaro General Hospital after he showed symptoms of the virus on April 5. He was later tested positive for COVID-19, he said.
With 8 fresh COVID-19 cases having reported in the last 24 hours, the overall count in the state rose to 13 – five in Bokaro, including the deceased, seven in Ranchi and one in Hazaribag, a health department official said.
Pathak said that three family members of the woman, who had tested positive for COVID-19 on April 5 in Bokaro district’s Telo village, also tested positive on Wednesday.
While two are the woman’s granddaughters, the other is her brother-in-law, he said.
A health department official on Thursday said that five new cases were detected in the Ranchi’s Hindpiri locality on Wednesday night, taking the total number of positive cases in the state capital to seven.
A 22-year-old Malaysian woman had tested positive on March 31 in the city.
The woman, with links to a Tablighi Jamaat attendee at Nizamuddin in New Delhi, stayed in the same Hindpiri locality along with other foreign nationals, the officials said.