PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Dec 21: Steel city of Jamshedpur recorded six fresh cases of Covid-19, confirmed health department officials on the basis of a report which arrived late on Monday evening.
Two cases were found in Mango, two in Baridih and one each in Jugsalai and Sakchi. Eight patients recovered on Monday.
Covid tests have been intensified at Tatanagar railway station and all entry points to the steel city over the fear of the new and more transmissible variant of coronavirus, Omicron, which first surfaced in South Africa.
It has already spread to several other countries including India.
Cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection caused by the new variant have already been reported in Maharashtra, Karnataka and New Delhi.
The two leading government hospitals in the steel city – the MGM Medical College and Hospital at Sakchi and Sadar Hospital at Khasmahal have also been instructed to ramp up facilities for Covid patients amid growing fear of a rise in cases.
Officials of the East Singhbhum health department said that Rapid Antigen Test ( RAT) and RT- PCR tests would soon resume at the Sitaramdera Bus Terminus, the biggest bus terminus of Kolhan which sees arrival and departure of buses for various destinations within and outside the state.
