Eight more patients tested positive for COVID19 in J&K on Thursday, taking the total positive cases to 70. While one new positive case is currently critical, another one has recovered as he tested negative for the respiratory virus.
A patient who tested COVID19 positive on Thursday wasshifted from Government Medical College Baramulla, where he was admittedyesterday, to SKIMS Medical College Hospital, a COVID19 facility now. Thepatient, Dr Shifa Deva, Medical Superintendent of the hospital, said, wasreceived in evening and was being evaluated.
Dr Abdul Hamid Kathu, principal GMC Baramulla, said thepatient’s condition was not stable and he was referred to a higher level formanagement.
On Thursday, three patients tested positive atSher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). Medical superintendentSKIMS, Dr Farooq Jan said that two of the patients were admitted with theInstitute. Both the patients, he said, had history of contact with COVID19positive patients.
“One male in 50s is from Budgam while another male in 20s isfrom Bandipora,” he said. The third sample that had tested positive was of theelderly person currently admitted at SKIMS Bemina.
Dr Jan said the condition of a COVID19 patient, who hadtested positive for COVID19 yesterday and was admitted at SKIMS, had improved.The patient was admitted in a very sick condition and had tested positive forCOVID19. He had not reported any travel history.
Meanwhile five new cases were reported from Jammu division.Three of the patients are from Udhampur, while two others are from Jammu.
One patient was today declared recovered by Chest DiseasesHospital as his test turned out negative. While announcing the “good news”, DrNaveed Nazir Shah, in-charge COVID19 at the hospital, tweeted “First patientadmitted in CD turns negative…”. The patient, a Srinagar resident, had returnedfrom Saudi Arabia on 16 March. He had voluntarily reported at CD Hospital fortesting and tested positive on 24 March.
His two grandchildren, a four year old and a seven year oldalso tested positive subsequently. They are currently admitted at JLNMHospital.
Dr S Saleem Khan, nodal officer for COVID19 at GMC Srinagarsaid both samples tested negative. “The patient is fit to be discharged now,”he said.
With this case, the total number of recovered patients inJ&K would reach four.
Government has already declared three recoveries of COVID19in J&K, the patients have been discharged.
Bhupinder Kumar, J&K nodal officer for COVID19, said twoof the recovered cases were from Jammu. One of these, he said, was the contactof the first patient of COVID19, while the other, the third patient to bedetected with the virus in J&K, had history of travel to Saudi Arabia.
The first COVID19 positive case of Kashmir, a Srinagar womanwho had travelled from Saudi Arabia, has also been declared recovered.