Jammu Tawi, May 2: Jammu and Kashmir continued to witness a significant uptick in Covid-19 cases, with the Union Territory (UT) reporting 3,571 fresh cases on Sunday to take the case tally to 183486. As many as 41 deaths pushed the death toll to 2,370.
Out of 41 deaths, 15 died in GMC Jammu, 02 in GMC Rajouri, 05 in SMVDNH Katra, 01 in GMC Kathua, 01 in GMC Doda, 01 in EMC Amritsar, 02 in CD Hospital Jammu, 01 in home(brought dead), 02 in JLNM Srinagar, 02 in SKIMS Soura, 03 in SMHS, 01 in SKIMS(JVC) Bemina, 03 in DH Kulgam, 02 in DH Pulwama. One of the deaths reported from ASCOMS, Jammu yesterday was not due to COVID.
Out of the fresh cases, 1,150 were from the Jammu division and 2,421 from the Kashmir division of the Union Territory, they said.
The officials said Srinagar district recorded the highest of 1,126 cases, followed by 486 in Jammu district and 268 in Baramulla district.
The number of active cases has reached 32,421 in the Union Territory, while 1,48,695 patients have recovered from the disease so far, the officials said.
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,370 as 41 more fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours.
With just 1,453 recoveries, the number of active cases has increased to 32,421. The total recoveries stand at 1,48,695, with the recovery rate decreasing sharply in the last two weeks. Covid infections are witnessing an upsurge and in the last six days J&K recorded nearly 21,000 cases. The UT witnessed in excess of 3,000 Covid cases for the 6th day in a row.
On Saturday J&K had recorded its worst-ever death toll of 47 and 3832 Covid-19 cases in a single day. As Srinagar district continues to report over 1,000 cases daily for the last one week, the administration on Sunday declared it as Red zone while the rest of the 19 districts of the UT were declared as Orange zones.
The categorisation was made during a review meeting of the State Executive Committee of the Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction chaired by Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam.
Restrictions on the movement and assembly of people continued to remain imposed across the UT in the wake of the 84-hour lockdown announced by the government on Thursday evening.
The government on Saturday announced the extension of the lockdown in four districts – Jammu and three other districts- till Thursday morning. Educational institutions in J&K shall also remain closed till May 31 in view of the prevailing Covid-19 surge, the government said on Sunday.
In a new set of guidelines issued in this regard, the State Executive Committee of the J&K’s Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction this afternoon, the government ordered closure of schools, tuition centres, colleges, universities and technical educational institutions in the union territory in view of the surge in infections.
The teaching staff has been asked to continue imparting online classes to the students from home while the courses requiring practical or research work have been exempted from the restrictions.
