Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir today witnessed 227 positive cases of coronavirus including 35 CRPF men, four BSF personnel and five pregnant women, taking the total number of Covid cases to 8,246 in the Union Territory.
Officials said that among the new cases that were detected, 89 were tested positive at SKIMS, 37 at JVC Bemina and rest at other hospitals.
Among 227 new cases, 197 belong to Kashmir division while 30 are from Jammu division, officials said, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division has reached 6,524 including 3,869 recoveries and 113 deaths while the total number of positive cases in Jammu division has reached 1,722 including 1,274 recoveries and 14 deaths.
With 68 more recoveries, the tally of total recoveries in Jammu and Kashmir has reached 5,143 which is 62.36 percent of the total cases.
Cases tested positive in J&K include 33 from Srinagar, 02 from Kulgam, 57 from Baramulla, 46 from Shopian, 04 from Anantnag, 07 from Kupwara, 17 from Pulwama, 26 from Budgam and 05 from Bandipora in Kashmir division while as 30 from Jammu division include 12 from Jammu, two from Udhampur, 10 from Samba, 4 from Rajouri and one each from Poonch and Doda.
As per the officials figures, 1,091 positive cases including 30 deaths and 423 recoveries are from Srinagar, 1,006 including 22 deaths and 421 recoveries are from Baramulla, 854 including 598 recoveries and 16 deaths are from Kulgam, 848 including 13 deaths and 611 recoveries are from Shopian, 717 including 10 deaths and 554 recoveries are from Anantnag, 584 including 418 recoveries and 07 deaths are from Kupwara, 534 including 267 recoveries and 04 deaths are from Pulwama, 466 including 241 recoveries and 09 death are from Budgam, 303 including 274 recoveries and 01 death are from Bandipora, 121 including 62 recoveries and 01 death are from are from Ganderbal.
In Jammu division, 388 including 301 recoveries and 08 deaths are from Jammu district, 288 including 195 recoveries and 01 death are from Udhampur, 242 including 177 recoveries and 01 death is from Kathua, 226 including 187 recoveries are from Ramban, 168 including 120 recoveries from Samba, 124 including 113 recoveries and 01 death are from Poonch, 122 including 01 death and 65 recoveries are from Rajouri, 90 including 60 recoveries and 02 death are from Doda, 45 including 32 recoveries are from Reasi and 29 including 21 recoveries are from Kishtwar.
As per the daily information bulletin, 2,93,355 people in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 40,409 people have been kept under home quarantine while 2,976 people are in hospital isolation.
In addition to this, 2,05,107 people have completed surveillance period and 44,693 people are under home surveillance. So far, results of 3,92,919 samples have been made available.
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