Five more COVID-19 cases in Jharkhand, count rises to 38

Five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Jharkhand, taking the total number of cases in the state to

38, officials said on Sunday.

Three people have tested positive in Ranchi district while one person each tested positive in Dhanbad and Simdega districts, they said.

According to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi, Director D K Singh four samples have tested positive.

The officials said that while three people are from different places in Ranchi district, one hails from Simdega district.

A news report quoting Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar said the samples of a railway trackman working with the East Central Railways tested positive for the disease on Saturday.

The man, a resident of a Railway Colony in Hirapur area, was being treated at the Divisional Railway Hospital here for fever, he said.

He had visited his in-laws' house at Chas in neighbouring Bokaro district to meet his pregnant wife and returned to Dhanbad on a ...