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Jharkhand: 'Water minister need not be in self-isolation'

JAMSHEDPUR: Shifting from its stand within 24 hours, the West Singhbhum district administration on Wednesday said the minister for drinking water and sanitation, Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, does not need to be in home quarantine.

On Tuesday, Thakur was advised self-isolation after a 22-year-old man from Manoharpur, who was lodged in a quarantine centre in Chaibasa where the minister paid a visit on May 18, tested positive for Covid-19.



West Singhbhum deputy commissioner Arava Rajkamal said: “He (Thakur) was advised to go into self-isolation till the contact-tracing report of the patient arrived. The contact-tracing report of the patient that came today confirms that the minister was neither in the high-risk contact category nor in the low-risk contact category. So there’s no need for the minster to be in self-isolation.”

On Monday, Thakur had visited Chaibasa divisional training centre. The Covid-positive man, a returning migrant from Chennai, was lodged in the centre since May 14. The migrant, a resident of Manoharpur, tested positive the day Thakur visited the facility along with district officials and his aides.

“The minister had visited the other wing of the quarantine centre and not the one where the Covid-infected man was staying,” the DC said. Thakur had said on Tuesday that he followed the protocols while visiting the quarantine centre. He could not be contacted for comments on Wednesday.

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