With coronavirus cases spiraling up rapidly especially in Kashmir Valley, the Government agencies on ground zero are leaving no stone unturned to track down contact persons of positive cases and conduct door to door testing of suspected cases across areas, which have been declared red zones.
Meanwhile, 24 new COVID-19 cases were detected in Jammu&Kashmir on Thursday, taking the total number of infected persons to 184. Late Wednesday night, Jammu region reported its first Coronavirus casualty taking the total death toll due to Covid-19 to four. Three deaths were earlier reported from Kashmir.
In another related development, Lt Governor, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Girish Chander Murmu Thursday said, 80,000 Rapid testing kits are expected to arrive in Jammu and Kashmir soon to carry out screening of suspected cases in most affected areas. He made this announcement in an exclusive interview to a local news channel.
On the other hand, government spokesman Rohit Kansal Thursday said, "the total number of cases in the Union Territory has risen to 184, out of which 152 are in Kashmir and 32 in Jammu". He said all the fresh cases were contacts of the already positive patients.
“The increase in detection of positive cases in the Union Territory is a result of aggressive testing,” he added.
The number of positive cases has been steadily increasing in the valley over the past one week.
The officials said aggressive contact tracing of the new cases has been started while some new areas have been declared red zones in Srinagar following the detection of fresh cases. In Jammu region as well, efforts are on to track down contacts of positive cases. Since majority of cases had a history of attending religious congregation in Nizamuddin the government agencies have sealed down affected areas across different residential areas to prevent further spread of coronavirus.