Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): A day after the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir since the outbreak of pandemic in the Union Territory, a 65-year-old woman from Srinagar has been tested positive a day after her death, taking the total fatalities in the UT to 36. With this, the tally of confirmed cases in J&K has climbed to 3,143.
Medical Superintendent of Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital Srinagar, Dr Nazir Choudhary said that an elderly woman from Batamaloo area of Srinagar was admitted in the hospital last morning with underlying medical conditions. “She had pneumonia and other ailments. She breathed her last late Thursday afternoon after which her samples were taken for Covid testing and her body was kept in a mortuary,” Dr Choudhary said.
He said the samples of the woman came as positive for the Covid-19 early this morning. With the fresh death, the total number of Covid deaths in J&K has reached 36 of which 32 were recorded in Kashmir and four in Jammu.
The fresh death comes a day after J&K witnessed the highest number of Covid positive cases—285, which also included a journalist and 20 pregnant women. This was the highest ever single-day spike in cases since the pandemic outbreak in J&K.
The senior medicos have already hinted that the situation may go from bad to worse as they claimed there was a ‘community transmission’ of Covid-19 in J&K now. Dr Naveed Nazir, Head of the Department (HoD) Chest diseases, who was at the forefront of Covid-19 fight and tested positive for the virus a few days ago, today tweeted: “So many positives detected each day. where r v going to keep them and their families/contacts. Do v have to alter our strategy… testing and quarantine.”
Associate Professor, Medicine, at the Governor Medical College (GMC) Srinagar and the only flu expert in Kashmir, Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan said: “We are already in community transmission because cases have swelled to a large extent. A case in point is large number of pregnant women are falling prey to this pandemic. They don’t have travel history of contact with the infected person. This means we are already in community transmission. What else can I call it,” he said.
