13-year-old girl dies of Covid in Jamshedpur

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.

Pall added, “Both sample testing and vaccination are being conducted to check the Covid graph.”

With 43,518 cases, the urban circle comprising the three urban municipal areas of Jamshedpur, Mango and

Jugsalai

reported a high number of Covid cases in the past 13 months. The secretary of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Jamshedpur Chapter, Mrityunjay Singh, has advised residents to strictly comply with the Covid-appropriate behaviour to delay the onset of the potential third wave in the district.