A 50-year-old man on
Monday tested positive for novel coronavirus in Bokaro districts Gomia block, taking the total COVID-19 tally to 42 in Jharkhand.
Bokaro district Chief Medical Officer Dr Ashok Kumar Pathak said the man, who hails from Sadam village, belongs to the family which had lost a 70-year-old member to the virus on April 8.
He is undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Bokaro General Hospital, Pathak said.
The total number of confirmed cases in the state includes two deaths, one each in Ranchi and Bokaro districts.
Most of the coronavirus patients have been reported in Ranchi district at 24, followed by ten in Bokaro, two each in Hazaribagh, Simdega and Dhanbad and one each in Koderma and Giridih districts.
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