Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir continues to witness a surge in the coronavirus positive cases as 13 more people were tested positive today taking the total number of cases to 341 in the Union Territory.
J&K government’s spokesman, Rohit Kansal in his tweet said that 13 more cases have been tested positive in Kashmir. “Of the total cases, 287 are from Kashmir and 54 from Jammu region,” Kansal said.
GH Yatoo, Nodal officer for Covid- 19 at SKIMS, said that 6 samples were tested positive at SKIMS today. Among them 5 are from Bandipora and 1 is from Beerwah Budgam. “Four patients whose repeated tests turned negative were discharged from the hospital,” he said. “Among them 3 are from Srinagar while 1 is from Budgam.”
Srinagar district which was topping the list of districts with 78 cases was today surpassed by Bandipora district of north Kashmir where total number of positive cases mounted to 80.
Officials have said that from March 9 to April 1, 911 samples were tested at SKIMS hospital Soura, while in Chest Diseases hospital, 941 samples were tested alone in the past 48 hours.
As per the officials figures, 78 positive cases including one death and 12 recoveries are from Srinagar, 80 including 11 recoveries and one death are from Bandipora, 42 including 2 deaths are from Baramulla, 13 including 7 recoveries from Budgam, 3 from Pulwama including one recovery, 22 from Shopian including 2 recoveries, 27 from Kupwara, 14 from Ganderbal, 5 from Kulgam and 5 from Anantnag in Kashmir division.
As per the daily media bulletin 60,419 persons in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 6,071 persons have been kept under home quarantine besides that 285 persons are in hospital isolation while 252 persons are under hospital quarantine.
According to the bulletin, 23,114 persons have completed surveillance period and 25,692 persons are under home surveillance besides that so far results of 6,937 samples have been made available.
Out of 6,937 the number of samples tested negative stands at 6,596 while 341 have been tested positive, among them 285 are active and 51 persons have recovered and 5 persons have died.
