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An official from the Bihar-cadre 2017-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of Uttar Pradesh has become the first state bureaucrat to test positive for Covid-19 coronavirus disease.
Posted as a subdivisional magistrate (SDM) in the Nalanda district of Bihar, the 27-year-old officer tested positive for the disease on May 12. His sample was sent for examination to the Rajendra Memorial Medical Research Institute (RMRIMS) in Patna on May 11.
Bihar’s chief health secretary, Sanjay Kumar, confirmed that the officer tested positive.
The young IAS officer has no travel history for the past 14 days, and is believed to have contracted the infection from local contacts. Until now, the health department had collected samples from 46 people believed to have contacted the officer.
According to government records, the officer was placed in isolation at the local Ajanta Hotel, which the government took over and turned into an institutional isolation center for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients or those showing mild symptoms of the virus, health officials said. .
The IAS officer comes from an ordinary environment. His father was an employee of the UP government secretariat in Lucknow and the mother of an elementary school teacher when he failed the civil services exam in 2017.
Efforts to communicate with Nalanda district magistrate Yogendra Singh were futile as she did not respond to phone calls or text messages.
This is the first case of an IAS officer testing positive in Bihar.
Previously, a young officer from the Jharkhand Box Indian Police Service (IPS), posted as the Superintendent of Police in Ranchi, had been quarantined at Patna Medical College Hospital after the officer and his wife returned from their honeymoon in Italy. The IPS officer and his wife had left the Indian coasts for Italy and Switzerland on March 8 and returned on March 13.
About 30 police officers, including 21 from the Bihar Military Police (BMP), have tested positive for the virus so far in the state. The headquarters and headquarters of BMP-14 is located in Khajpura, which is a designated red zone.
A Parwalpur Nurse Aide Midwife (ANM) had also tested positive for the virus on May 12. The government had extensively used ANMs and anganwadi (AWW) workers for its state-to-house house-to-house survey of people for Covid-19.
Nalanda, with 63 cases, is among the top five Bihar districts, contributing to 953 Covid-19 cases in the state. As of Thursday noon, Bihar has 546 active cases after seven deaths and so far 400 patients have been cured and discharged from government facilities.
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