After successfully containing the spread of coronavirus at least in Jammu division, the Jammu & Kashmir Government is fully geared up to receive stranded passengers via train services at Udhampur railway station from Monday.
Elaborate arrangements for screening and sampling have been made by the government authorities to ensure smooth disbursal of passengers heading to different destinations.
Meanwhile, 26 new positive cases, three from Jammu division and 23 from Kashmir division were detected on Sunday taking the final tally in Jammu & Kashmir to 862. Out of five districts of Kashmir valley, Anantnag district alone accounted for 119 active cases.
According to the daily Media Bulletin on novel coronavirus (Covid-19), out of 861 positive cases, 469 are Active Positive, 383 have recovered and 09 have died. One more patient,admitted in the GMC hospital tested positive late evening in Jammu. A close door neighbour of a family from Gurah Bakshi Nagar area also tested positive in Jammu. Meanwhile, health audit of Jammu district has been completed and a total number of 14.4 lac residents were surveyed by the different health department teams. A total number of 600 samples were collected and four members of a family including their driver was tested positive. Large number of Rohingyas, screened during the health audit across different temporary camps in Jammu also tested negative during the survey,official sources said,
Moreover, 15 more Covid-19 patients have recovered and discharged from various hospitals of Kashmir Division, the bulletin said.
District Development Commissioner, Dr Piyush Singla Sunday said, they have made all arrangements to receive the people of J&K who are stranded outside and are being brought back to home through special trains and to be de-boarded at railway station Udhampur.
The DDC informed that magistrates along with other staff members have been deployed to receive these passengers at the platform. Besides, the district administration has made a specially designed app for registration of passengers. Data entry operators have been deployed to guide the passengers about process of online registration on App. The Nodal officer at control room will get the real time data for data base management, which will facilitate the allocation of buses for onward journey of these people to their home towns immediately.