COVID19: CD hospital struggles with uncooperative patients, wants govt to deploy security
Srinagar, Mar 26: In wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Srinagar chest diseases hospital is facing serious challenges due to lack of security and uncooperative patients. The hospital is at the forefront of treating patients with respiratory tract infections, thus making it an obvious place to receive suspected coronavirus cases, of which Kashmir so far […]
Cabinet Secretary holds VC with Chief Secretaries to review supply, transportation of essential goods
JAMMU, MARCH 26: Cabinet Secretary, Rajiv Gauba today held video conference with Chief Secretaries of all States/Union Territories to review supply chain management and transportation of essential commodities and services in and out of the State/UTs during the lockdown period as announced by the Prime Minister to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak. The meeting was […]
DC inspected District Hospital and Quarantine Home wards at GHSS Shopian.
SHOPIAN, MARCH 26: To review the preparedness of District Administration for containing corona virus, the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Shopian, Chaudhary Mohammad Yasin visited District Hospital Shopian and took stock of of various facilities there, here today. He was accompanied by the Medical Superintendent DH Shopian, BMO and other concerned. The DC directed the officials to set […]
Strict restrictions ordered across Bandipora up to April 14
No religious congregation permitted without any exception: DM SRINAGAR, MARCH 26: In view of the surfacing of four more coronavirus positive cases in the district on Wednesday, the District Magistrate Bandipora, Shahbaz Ahmad Mirza, has ordered strict imposition of restrictions in the district. According to the order issued by District Magistrate under Section 144 of CrPC, […]
MD JPDCL visits quarantine centers at Jammu
JAMMU, MARCH 26: Managing Director Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL), Yasha Mudgal visited various quarantine centers of district Jammu to ensure adequacy of security, logistics like food/essential commodities etc, medical surveillance and sanitation arrangements During the tour, she visited five quarantine centers including Teacher Bhawan Gandhi Nagar, Yatri Bhawan, Bhagwati Nagar, NHPC Guest House […]
COVID19: Infant, 7 year old latest positive cases in Kashmir
Srinagar : A young girl and an infant from Srinagar have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kashmir, taking the total number of such cases in Kashmir to 11. As per a senior official at JLNM hospital, the girls, aged 8 months old and 7 years old, were tested positive for the virus. The two are […]
Covid-19: Altaf Bukhari reiterates demand for restoration of 4G Internet in J&K
Jammu Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Thursday urged the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister to restore high speed mobile Internet, one of the prerequisites, in taking up preventive measures against the spread of Coronavirus-19 in Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement issued here, Bukhari observed that restoration of 4G […]
Number of coronavirus cases 649 in India, death toll 13: Health Ministry
The number of coronavirus cases climbed to 649 in India on Thursday and the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 13, with one death reported each from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh, according to the Health Ministry. Goa featured for the first time in the chart prepared by the ministry, reporting 33 coronavirus […]
4G seesaw? Here’s what has happened so far
Srinagar, Mar 26: As coronavirus continues devouring lives and closing down the entire world, the persistent shutdown of high-speed mobile internet in J&K has peeved the residents here, who believe that absence of such a cardinal facility is a great hurdle in speedy healthcare and dissemination of vital information. What has equally flustered the residents […]
Post lockdown, rise in mercury may prevent spread of COVID-19 in India: Top microbiologists
Top Indian microbiologists are hopeful that after the 21-day lockdown, when summer approaches, the rise in temperature would play an important role in preventing the drastic spread of COVID-19 virus in India. “My biggest hope is that an expected rise in temperature by the end of April (this year) would certainly give a leverage in […]
