A mother-daughter duo from Srinagar is among the 25 fresh positive cases of COVID19 in J&K.
Although the total number of COVID19 cases in J&Kreached 726, active cases as per information bulletin issued by government are415 while 303 people have recovered. Eight deaths have taken place in J&Kdue to the viral illness.
Till date 28199 tests have been carried out here.
Principal secretary to J&K Government, Rohit Kansal, haslauded the testing lab teams for crossing the 2000 test limit line of Sunday.The number of tests has increased substantially at the two labs.
On Monday, CD Hospital carried out 337 tests. Dr Farooq Jan, medicalsuperintendent SKIMS said 775 tests had been carried out in past 24 hours.
The number of tests is expected to rise further with newsamples being taken from people evacuated from other states and being broughtto J&K.
Dr Qazi Haroon, OSD to directorate of health servicesKashmir said 52 students had arrived in Srinagar today, including threestudents from Kota. “All of them have been sampled for COVID19,” he said.
Of Monday’s cases, 12 were from Baramulla, 4 Budgam, 3Srinagar, 2 Shopian, 2 Bandipora, 1 Pulwama and 1 Jammu.
With 12 new cases, district Baramulla was the highestcontributing district in today’s case tally. With these numbers, the districthas 103 reported cases of COVID19 till date. Of these, 61 are currently activewhile 44 cases have recovered. The district has recorded three deaths due tothe viral infection.
Of today’s cases, seven were from Sherbagh Baramulla andfive were from Hardikichloo Baramulla. The infected include an eight year oldchild and a 60 year old female.
District Budgam had four new cases on Monday. While three ofthese were from Chrar-e-Shareef, one person who tested positive was from HafrooNagam area. An 11 year old girl was among the cases.
District Srinagar had two new COVID19 cases on Monday. Thenew positives were a mother-daughter duo from Rainawari. The family is acontact of a COVID19 positive case from the same area, Dr S Saleem Khan, nodalofficer COVID19 at GMC Srinagar said.
An attendant of an Anantnag woman currently admitted atSuper Specialty Hospital here has also tested positive. The woman had testedpositive for COVID19 on Friday.
Herpora Shopian had two new cases of COVID19 today, whileBandipora again had two new cases. A two year old girl is among the cases fromBandipora district.
One case was reported from Pulwama district while one morehad been reported from Jammu division.
With today’s addition, four districts in J&K havecrossed 100 mark of COVID19 patients. These are Srinagar, Bandipora, Anantnagand Baramulla. District Shopian with 83 cases is nearing 100 mark.