Jamshedpur: The Steel City police have nabbed 64 persons and seized over 400gm of brown sugar and more than 63kg of marijuana during its six-month-lon.
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Jamshedpur: A 25-year-old woman in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district died of dengue while an 18-year-old girl tested positive for the mosquito-borne disease here in the past 24 hours, leaving the health workers, who are already grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, extremely worried.
The district surveillance officer of Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jhujhar Majhi, said the deceased, Puja Sahu, a resident of Rajnagar block, was tested positive for dengue at the Tata Main Hospital (TMH) where she was undergoing treatment since July 6. She died on Thursday night.
“As an immediate measure, fogging and spraying of larvicide and bleaching power was done at the house of the deceased and in the vicinity. Besides, door-to-door surveillance has been launched to detect potential breeding ground of mosquitoes and destroy them,” Majhi said.
Along with increasing checking at the 14 inter-state check points, porous areas near the borders are being identified to keep an eye on the movement of villagers from adjoining states.
JAMSHEDPUR: The rise in Covid-19 cases in the eight rural blocks in the district close to the Bengal and Odisha borders have forced officials to draw up a fresh blueprint to contain the virus.
Along with increasing checking at the 14 inter-state check points, porous areas near the borders are being identified to keep an eye on the movement of villagers from adjoining states.
“Active cases are being reported regularly from the rural blocks. Hence we are trying to detect suspected Covid-19 carriers coming to the district from outside,” additional chief medical officer (ACMO) Sahir Pall said.
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JAMSHEDPUR: The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has claimed the life of another child in the Steel City. Undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at the Tata Main Hospital (TMH) here for nearly a week, the latest victim, a 13-year-old girl, was also suffering from jaundice. She succumbed to the viral disease on Saturday. The girl had visited the hospital for treatment of jaundice but subsequently tested positive for Covid-19. A resident of Golmuri, the girl had no travel history.
Earlier, in April, a child had died after contracting the contagious disease. The additional chief medical officer, (ACMO), Sahir Pall, said that so far, 1,932 children under 14 years were infected with Covid-19 in the state. Nearly 1,200 of them are boys and the rest are girls.