COVID-19 tally goes up to 228 in Jharkhand; patients fast recovering in Ranchi

Ranchi, May 18 () Five more persons on Monday testedpositive for novel coronavirus in Jharkhand, taking the totalnumber of cases to 228 in the state.

Out of the total cases, 98 are active cases while 127recovered and three died, according to a government bulletin.

The total cases include 93 migrants who were foundinfected with the virus, it said.

One each person from Hazaribag, West Singhbhum, EastSinghbhum, Garhwa and Dhanbad districts tested positive to theinfection during the day, health officials said. Thirteen of the 24 districts in the state have COVID-19cases, the government bulletin said.

Ranchi, which is in the Red Zone, has only 13 activecases out of the total 105 cases in the state capital, itsaid.

Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Rai Mahimapat Ray said thatseven more infected patients recovered in the state capital,reducing active cases to only thirteen out of a total 105positive cases.

"Again Ranchi, which has become a role model for thecountry on recovery rate, has good news. Seven personsrecovered on Monday," a release said quoting Ray.

"The success is due to team work," he said and expressedoptimism that the good work would continue to contain thespread of the infection.

Ninety persons have recovered in Ranchi so far with thehelp of the doctors, health workers and administrativeofficials, he said.

Hazaribag Deputy Commissioner (DC) Bhuvanesh Pratap Singhsaid that a 40-year-old person, who reached Shankarpur, aboutfive km from Hazaribag town, from Mumbai on May 13, testedpositive to COVID-19 on Monday.

He was in a quarantine centre soon after he reached thevillage, the DC said, adding now he has been shifted to theisolation ward of Hazaribag Medical College Hospital.

All the of 22 patients from Barkatha, Bishnugarh,Hazaribag Sadar and Katkumsandi area of the district areunder treatment.

With 26 cases, Garhwa has the highest number of activecases followed by Hazaribag (23), the bulletin said. PVRSNS SNS