Ranchi: The burning ghat at Muktidham in Harmu on Sunday witnessed a long queue of bodies as one of the electric furnaces developed a snag. Therefore, people had to wait for long hours to perform the last rites of their relatives who died of Covid-19.
Congress leader Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, who visited the venue to take part in a ritual, alleged the situation arose due to the insensitivity of the administration.
He said, “The bodies of Covid victims are cremated in electric furnaces. With the number of deaths owing to Covid-19 rising sharply and one of the furnaces becoming inoperative, people are having to wait for hours to cremate their near ones.”
Ranchi: Several Adivasi community members under the banner of Compat Munda 22 Padha Kendra Pakra on Sunday staged a demonstration to demand implementa.
Jamshedpur: With fresh cases of Covid-19 increasing, the number of micro containment zones rose to 486 in East Singhbhum district on Sunday. Of the three municipal areas, Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) has the maximum number of containment zones at 350.
While Mango Notified Area Committee houses 75 micro containment zones, Jugsalai Municipality has four and 57 have been set up in the peripheral areas of Jamshedpur. Of the 1,340 active cases in the district, almost 90% are from the Steel City. In the urban circle, Kadma, Mango, Sonari, Sakchi, Bistupur, Telco and Sidhgora, have been identified as Covid-19 hot spots as most number of cases have surfaced from these parts.
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.