Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): The wife and son of an advisor to J&K’s Lieutenant Governor are among 47 new cases tested positive for Covid-19 in the Union Territory, apart from two fresh deaths.
The total number of people who have died of Covid-19 in J&K has now reached 23, of which 21 were reported in Kashmir and two in Jammu region. The total number of coronavirus cases in the UT also swelled to 1,668.
Officials said that among new 47 cases that were detected in J&K, 10 were tested positive at CD hospital Srinagar, 25 at Army’s command hospital Srinagar and rest at other private labs.
Among 47 new cases, 14 belong to the Kashmir division while 33 are from the Jammu division. The total number of positive cases in J&K has reached 1,668 including 809 recoveries and 23 deaths, they said.
Cases tested positive today include 5 from Anantnag, 3 from Kulgam, 3 from Srinagar and one each from Shopian, Kupwara and Pulwama in Kashmir division while 33 from Jammu including 21 from Jammu district, 4 from Kuthua, 2 each from Udhampur, Poonch and Reasi and one each from Ramban and Doda.
Officials said that the wife and son of Advisor to LG have been tested positive for the Covid-19 and both have been placed under quarantine. The Advisor too has been put under quarantine separately and his samples have also been taken.
An official, requesting anonymity said that wife of LG’s advisor is a doctor in Delhi and it is believed that she may have transmitted the virus while on duty and her son may have got it from his mother. He said that both mother and son were tested immediately on arrival in Jammu and were placed under quarantine as per protocol.
“Both are asymptomatic and are undergoing treatment at a hospital in Katra area of Reasi district of Jammu,” the official said. “Advisor to LG is doing fine with no symptoms at all. His sample reports are awaited,” they said.
Meanwhile, two more deaths were reported due to Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir today, taking the overall death toll in the UT to 23. An official said that an Income Tax lawyer from Jammu, who died last morning in a hospital in the winter capital, was tested positive for coronavirus as his reports came in today.
A woman from south Kashmir’s Kulgam area who died on March 22 was also tested positive today, the doctors at the SMHS hospital Srinagar said, adding that her test reports came today as positive.
As per officials figures, 278 positive cases including four deaths and 109 recoveries are from Anantnag, 227 including three deaths and 15 recoveries are from Kulgam, 182 including six deaths and 125 recoveries are from Srinagar, 139 including one death and 129 recoveries are from Bandipora, 137 including 98 recoveries and four deaths are from Baramulla, 129 including 107 recoveries are from Shopian, 165 including 70 recoveries are from Kupwara, 64 including 47 recoveries and two deaths are from Budgam, 27 including 24 recoveries are from Ganderbal and 26 including 10 recoveries are from Pulwama.
In Jammu division, 99 including 34 recoveries and two deaths are from Jammu district, 49 including 6 recoveries are from Kathua, 37 including 21 recoveries and one death are from Udhampur, 45 including 1 recovery is from Ramban, 27 including 7 recoveries from Samba, 13 including 4 recoveries are from Rajouri, 8 including 1 recovery is from Kishtwar, 8 with no recovery from Poonch, 6 including 1 recovery is from Reasi and 2 from Doda.
