Bokaro: A joint team of Jamui (Bihar) police and the Bihar excise department with the support of the Bokaro administration raided a liquor manufacturing unit, Shree Om Bottlers and Blenders Private Limited, on Saturday night. The team seized more than 700 boxes of liquor bottles stocked in a godown located adjacent to the manufacturing unit.
Although the liquor manufacturing unit is licensed, the godown adjacent to it where the liquor bottles were seized is unlicensed. The liquor factory belongs to businessman Anil Singh. Apart from liquor manufacturing, Singh has other business ventures. Singh did not respond when contacted.
The SP of Jamui, Pramod Kumar Mandal, said over the phone: “The raid was conducted following the seizure of a huge stock of liquor bottles from a truck parked near a dhaba at Panaut Moad in Malaypur area of Jamui on April 9.” The truck’s driver said he loaded the liquor from Bokaro. Six people were arrested in Jamui.
Sindri: The Dhanbad district administration on Saturday sealed Clinilab, a leading radiology and pathology laboratory in Dhanbad which was ordered to shut for three days, for gross violation of disaster management rules by testing Covid-infected patients.
Officials said the lab was caught red-handed while conducting CT scans and chest X-rays of patients even after it was asked to close for three days after one of its staff tested positive for the virus.
Talking to TOI about the sealing of the lab, deputy commissioner Uma Shankar Singh said, We received information that some radiology labs were conducting CT scans and chest X-rays to on patients and were not sharing details of their tests with the IDSP cell. We asked the labs to share the information and details of such persons so that they do not infect others. Later, we directed three labs, including Clinilab, to shut their operations for three days to get their premises sanitized and get their staff tested.
Ranchi: Some healthcare and frontline workers, who had taken both shots of the Covid-19 vaccine, have tested positive for the virus in the city recently even as health experts said inoculation is the best way to fight the deadly virus and to reduce the severity of the infection.
A few workers, who tested positive after taking completing the vaccination cycle, told TOI that several reasons could be behind their infection but the most probable one is their higher exposure to the virus as they deal with infected patients and the mutation of the virus since the outbreak.
A 38-year-old Rims physician, who is now in home isolation, said, “I had taken my second dose of vaccine on March 8 and tested positive on April 4, almost after a month I had completed the inoculation. I have been experiencing high fever and headache for the last four days and will shift to the hospital if the symptoms persist.
Ranchi: Even as state capital Ranchi grapples with a surge in infections, accounting for more than 50% of the total active cases in Jharkhand, the district hospital here has got only one doctor to handle 60 ventilators. Notably, ventilators are operated under the supervision of doctor who have specialisation in anaesthesia.
As per the data provided by the district health authorities, the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) has 18 ventilators and the central hospital of Central Coalfields Limited has a lone ventilator. The sadar hospital in Ranchi has a total of 60 ventilators, but none of them has been used since the second wave of infections began in the state. Till Monday morning, Ranchi had 3,015 of 5,244 active cases in the state.
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RANCHI: The Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) on Monday postponed its counselling sessions for PG and PhD students, which were to be held both online and offline on April 7, 9 and 12, in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases. BAU official Pankaj Vatsal said, “A committee will work out the modalities for completing the counselling process.”
The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by vice-chancellor Onkar Nath Singh and attended by the dean, director and other officials.
Last week, BAU had shut its administrative building till Tuesday for fumigation after three of its staff members tested positive for Covid on Saturday.