Srinagar, Oct 09: The Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta today chaired a meeting to review the public health response to COVID-19.
The Chief Secretary, appreciated the four districts of Samba, Poonch, Ramban and Anantnag for achieving 100% vaccination of population over 18 years with 1st dose. He reiterated that the remaining districts also need to redouble their efforts to ensure 100% coverage of all eligible population with first Covid vaccination dose within a week.
It was informed that Jammu and Kashmir has reported 0.21% daily positivity rate against the national average of 1.49%. So far, 1,25,34,897 vaccination doses have been administered to the eligible population in the Union territory. A total of 86,64,393 (93% of total population) people of 18 years and above age have been administered the first dose while 38,70,504 in the same age group have been given the second dose (42% of total population).
Dr Mehta impressed upon all the district administrations to mobilise all resources towards universal vaccination of eligible group, including initiating IEC campaigns, if necessary, to saturate all the eligible population in all districts with first dose by 16th October, 2021. He also asked the districts to focus on overdue second dose so that such population can be covered at the earliest.
Dr. Mehta stressed the need of strict enforcement of the Covid appropriate behaviour (CAB) and COVID SOPs, especially during the upcoming season of festivities.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Saturday witnessed 82 fresh positive cases taking the number of total active cases in the Union Territory to 1,100 while no fresh death was reported in the UT in the last 24 hours.
With no more deaths, the death toll in the UT stands at 4,426 and 82 fresh positive cases reported on Saturday have pushed the tally of positive cases to 330,434.
Of the exact number of 330,434 cases, 206,360 are from Kashmir division and 124,074 from Jammu division. Among 82 new cases, 69 belong to Kashmir division while as 13 are from Jammu division, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division have reached to 206,360 including 203,304 recoveries and 2,252 deaths while as total number of positive cases in Jammu division have reached to 124,074 including 121,604 recoveries and 2,174 deaths.
The officials said that the total number of active cases in Jammu and Kashmir are 1,100 including 804 from Kashmir division and 296 from Jammu division.
With 81 more recoveries, the tally of total recoveries in Jammu and Kashmir has reached 324,908 which is 98.33 percent of the total cases.
