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The Jharkhand government will conduct a survey of social and economic conditions of families of those who died due to Covid-19 during the second wave of the pandemic in a bid to plan welfare schemes, officials said on Sunday.
In a letter addressed to deputy commissioners of all 24 districts in the state, health secretary Arun Kumar Singh directed them to prepare a special team for surveying families of 3,983 residents who died of Covid-19 from March 15 to June 9.
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During the survey, the teams will interact with the kin of Covid victims and seek details about the members in the family of the diseased, their source of income, health condition of the family members and other information that will help the government extend support to the needy, many of whom have lost their sole bread-earners, health officials said.
Jharkhand conducting confirmatory RT PCR tests on symptomatic rural residents Of the 2,08,556 scanned during state survey, only 981 were Covid positive
The Jharkhand government has started conducting confirmatory RT PCR tests on the over 2 lakh rural residents who tested negative for Covid-19 in rapid tests conducted during the 10-day Intensive Public Health Survey (IPHS) from May 25 to June 5, health officials said on Saturday.
The confirmatory tests, officials said, was necessary as all the residents who underwent Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) during the survey showed symptoms of Covid-19. As per survey data, of the over 2.63 crore people surveyed during IPHS, at least 2,08,556 showed symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) or Influenza Like Illness (ILA).