jamshedpur animated mascots online video games walkathons comic books and selfie with the mascot cutouts will soon become part of the innovative mass covid awareness drive targeted at the younger generation in steel cityauthorities of the east singhbhum district one of the worst covidhit in the state decided to take up the drive to encourage the masses to take up the three fundamental points to wear masks maintain social distancing and to wash handsinitially the officials created a mascot titled huudhud and installed it various places including at the offices of the dc the ssp jnac and other public areas like markets malls and institutes among others to promote the three pointsdc suraj kumar who is the brain behind the campaign said we have started both online and offline measures to target the youngsters and make them comply with the safety measureshe stressed that it is often the elderly people who fell prey to the virus after it was inadvertently brought home by the younger members who could asymptomatic carriershe further said online video games walkathon and comic books all themed on covid safety will be launched later this month anybody can take selfies with the mascots we have put up and upload them on social networking sides they can also tag the dc office with the selfies kumar said adding that prizes will be given weekly to people to proactively participate in spreading the awarenessthe district administration is also putting up hoardings and posters in collaboration with singhbhum chamber of commerce and industry jamshedpur bar association and commercial taxes bar association among other business and commercial groupsappreciating the initiative indian medical association jamshedpur chapter president umesh khan said east singhbhum is apparently the first district in the state to have worked on innovative ways to spread the covid safety awareness campaigns both offline and online as of thursday morning the has a total of 16450 positive cases of which 1328 are active 14785 have recovered and 337 have died