Ahead of Eid, which is likely to be celebrated on Monday, the district administration is facing tough times containing movement of local residents on the streets of Srinagar. Despite making passionate appeals and involving local clerics large number of people stepped out of their homes for Eid shopping on Saturday.
Traffic police cops faced hardships at several city junctions regulating the flow of traffic on ground zero. Simultaneously, mobile vehicles, fitted with loud speakers were seen moving across different localities warning local residents against stepping out for Eid shopping.
Deputy Commissioner,Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary used the social media platforms to send across a direct message to all those people, currently quarantined in different locations, to wait for their test reports and avoid using pressure tactics to return home during Eid.
“Since Covid outbreak, it’s not a normal world, it wasn’t normal Ramzan, isn’t going to be normal Eid. Please exert no pressure for sending quarantined home without reports. It’s not normal life” tweeted Dr Choudhary. Meanwhile, 80 fresh cases of coronavirus were detected and one more patient died in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir taking the total tally of cases to 1569 on Saturday. Out of these 80 cases, 21 cases were detected from Jammu division and 59 from Kashmir division.
AT present, a total number of 774 cases are active positive in Jammu & Kashmir and the same number of 774 cases have recovered so far.
A total number of 21 deaths due to covid-19 have been reported, 2 from Jammu division and 19 from Kashmir.
On Saturday, the highest number of 36 cases tested positive in North Kashmir district of Kupwara while 14 cases tested positive from Ramban district of Jammu division.