Jajpur: A health worker of Jajpur Municipality succumbed to COVID-19, official sources said on Sunday.
engaged in containment of COVID-19 infections succumbed to the deadly virus, informed the civic body today.
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According to the municipal authorities, the health worker, Lokesh Panda, was engaged to monitor the COVID care centres in Jajpur Municipality limits. He was given the responsibility to visit COVID-19 positive patients at their homes.
Panda belonged to Sasanpada under Binjharpur block of the district. Before being deployed in Jajpur town, he was working as a health worker in Binjharpur. He was shifted to Jajpur Municipality considering his efficiency.
The district administration had condoled the death of the frontline health worker.
