Ranchi: The State Health Department has searched for detailed reports from district officials in Garhwa after the first time that 19 people were tested positive in the village of Haradag Khurd under the Ramna beam in the district after the arrival of Hamlet from Madhya Pradesh on July 25.
Garhwa officials have also been directed to send 19 samples to the genome sequencing because the existence of the Delta variant of the virus has been detected in MP.
The State Epidemiologist Dr.
Praveen Karn said, “We are waiting for a report from the district while we have directed district officials to preserve 19 patients for genome sequencing.” After contact, Deputy Commissioner Garhwa Rajesh Kumar Pathak said that the medical and administrative team had gone to the village and they were in the process of presenting the detention zone there.
“As soon as we learned about 19 infections, we sent our medical team there for contact contacts,” he added.
All 19 patients, belonging to three families, have been treated at Covid care centers in Garhwa and their condition is said to be stable.
Asked whether there were children, of 19 patients, who were tested, the epidemiology of Dr.
Santosh Kumar Mishra said, “Eight of 19 patients under 18 years.” Dr.
Mishra added, “Two migrant workers, both of them were 25 years old, had arrived at Garhwa Train Station from Sagar District in Madhya Pradesh on July 25.
According to their protocol, we have collected their swab samples at the station itself and they were tested positive at 26 July..
As soon as we received a report, we tracked both and claimed to be hospital.
“He said,” On Wednesday, we began contacting the search in the village and collecting 25 samples, which was positively tested.
Until now, we have collected more Of the 200 samples from Haradag Khurd Village for testing.
“Local sources in Garhwa claim that migrant workers do not follow the protocol and they are not in house isolation after they return to the village, which causes infection to spread.
The migrants have provided the wrong contact number to the district health department officials who make it difficult for their department to contact them and thus, delay the contact process of contacts and isolation with 24 hours.
“We have received a test report of two workers on Monday but we cannot trace them until Tuesday because they have given the wrong telephone number,” said a health department official from Garhwa.