COVID-19: 78 people walk home after completing quarantine in Srinagar hotel
Srinagar: At least 78 people who had returned from Leh and were put under quarantine were allowed to go home after completing the quarantine period. Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Srinagar Syed Haneef Balkhi , who is also quarantine in-Charge that 78 people who belonged to various parts of Kashmir like Kupwara, Baramulla, Anantnag, Pulwama and a […]
District hospital Anantnag lacks hygiene
By Javeed Malik Anantnag Amid COVID-19 threat, hospitals in South Kashmir lack hygiene especially district hospital of Anantnag. Patient care is already very poor, when this reporter accompanied a patient to the hospital, the condition of washrooms is very poor. The wards of the hospital also need lot of efforts from the administration keep them […]
Internet Curbs in Kashmir Hamper Coronavirus Fight
Health ministry on Monday invited doctors in Kashmir to an online training session on managing ventilators – critical equipment for patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Most, however, were unable to attend because of long-running curbs on the Internet that have prevented those living in Kashmir from accessing information about the […]
How Tablighi Jamaat emerged as the ‘largest known’ Covid-19 source in South Asia
New Delhi: Tablighi Jamaat, a non-political global Sunni Islamic evangelical movement of Indian origin, has emerged as the “largest known viral vector” of the novel coronavirus in South Asia. Its religious congregations are said to be the source of hundreds of positive cases of the disease in the region. In India, the Ministry of Home Affairs […]
Trump flags tougher coronavirus curbs for US
The United States may toughen movement restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, with the country now reporting twice the number of cases as China where the outbreak began late last year. The US has nearly 163,500 confirmed cases, the highest number in the world. More than 3,000 people in the US have now died […]
No New Coronavirus Cases In Ladakh In 12 Days As Lockdown, Isolation Continue
The Union Territory of Ladakh, which was one of the first few regions in the country to report positive Coronavirus cases, has not registered any new cases in the last 12 days. The officials attribute the halt in the rise of positive cases to the complete lockdown and isolation of villages where suspected symptomatic patients […]
Coronavirus: Three More Test Positive, Total Cases 55
Srinagar Three more patients have tested positive for the Coronavirus in Kashmir taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 55, the official spokesman said. Taking to social networking site Twitter, government spokesman Rohit Kansal wrote: “ UPDATE : 6 new positive cases confirmed in Kashmir Division. All contacts of previous […]
COVID-19: Ten year old among 3 positive, J-K tally rises to 52
Srinagar: The number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday crossed 50 mark as three more persons have been confirmed to have contracted the dreaded disease, all of them from Kashmir and include a ten-year-old boy, who had hugged a man who later tested positive for coronavirus. Official sources told that the boy, a […]
New York governor begs for help as coronavirus death toll climbs
New York’s governor put out an urgent plea for medical volunteers, and a Navy hospital ship pulled into port Monday as coronavirus deaths in the city mounted and hospitals buckled in what authorities say could be a preview of what other communities across the United States could soon face. “Please come help us in New York now. We need […]
How Trump was forced to give up his plan to reopen America for Easter
Washington: As President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response team gathered at the White House Sunday to discuss re-opening the U.S. for business by Easter, his top health experts painted a troubling picture of what lay ahead. Deborah Birx, an immunologist picked by Vice President Mike Pence to weigh the ailment’s impact, cautioned that the U.S. outbreak was […]
