After Srinagar, it is Bandipora district of Kashmir valley which is emerging as one of the 'hotspots' of Jammu & Kashmir. Out of 91 positive cases from the district, 30 patients have tested positive for Covid-19 from only one village in the area.
Now after receiving the rapid testing kits, the health department authorities are expected to start door to door screening of suspected cases and also conduct rapid testing in order to chalk out the future strategy to contain the further spread. For the time being, majority of population has been advised to stay indoors in home quarantine.
Meanwhile, with 14 fresh cases from Kashmir division and zero from Jammu region, the total number of positive cases jumped to 368 in Jammu & Kashmir on Monday.
In Jammu district, samples of Rohingyas lifted during special screening of red zone areas on Sunday also tested negative.
Samples were lifted by the health department teams as they continue to screen the Rohingya population along with local residents in areas declared as red-zones. Director Health, Jammu and Srinagar have both received rapid testing kits to start screening of suspected cases in red zone areas in the next few days.
On recovery front, the total number of 71 patients have recovered fully. Out of these 58 patients have been discharged from different hospitals of Srinagar and 13 from Jammu.
According to the daily bulletin on Covid-19, "so far more than 8600 samples have been tested in Jammu and Kashmir out of these 8244 have tested negative and 368 tested positive".
At present the total number of active cases stood at 292 with Srinagar recording second highest positive cases at 79 after Bandipora. 44 cases have tested positive in Baramulla, 33 in Kupwara, 22 in Shopian, 14 in Ganderbal,13 in Budgam, 6 in Kulgam, 3 in Pulwama and 8 in Anantnag. In Jammu region, Jammu has recorded 26 cases, Udhampur 20, Samba 4, Rajouri 4 and Kishtwar 1.
Deputy Commissioner,Udhampur Dr Piyush Singla Monday tweeted, "three more covid positive cases recovered and discharged from isolation". All of them hailed from Narsoo, block Chenani in Udhampur district.
They were discharged from Govt hospital, Gandhinagar in Jammu.