<span style="color: #222222;">Four new Corona positive cases have been confirmed from Ranchi today taking the total count of COVID 19 patients in Jharkhand to 53. Three cases have been detected from Hindpiri locality through the ongoing intensive contact tracing done by the district administration. One patient is from Bero area of Ranchi district. Eight districts of the state have been affected with positive cases of COVID19.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' In a close door meeting late this evening, Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh and Health Secretary Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni discussed upon the rising number of COVID-19 cases and measures to be adopted to increase the testing rate in the state. Meanwhile, Dr Kulkarni told AIR that they have increased the testing rate through rapid-testing and sample collection techniques.<br />''<br />'' Director General of Police MV Rao said in a press statement that foreign nationals who have recovered and completed their quarantine period will now be prisoned in special wards in the jails for violating the VISA rules.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''Ranchi, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Dhanbad, Simdega, Koderma, Giridih, Deoghar and Garhwa are among the eights districts with positive COVID-19 cases, while Ranchi itself has the maximum number of 30 cases. Eight patients have recovered in the state while three deaths have been reported so far.</span><br />