Despite augmenting patient care facilities across different hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir in recent days the death toll due to Covid-19 is on the rise. On Saturday, 60 patients died, 42 across Jammu region and 18 across Kashmir while 4788 fresh cases of coronavirus were detected taking the tally of active positive cases to 46535.
The overall positivity rate stood at 10.23 percent on Saturday.
To tide over the shortage of covid beds the UT administration in Jammu decided to reserve at least 50 percent beds across four leading nursing homes for Covid patients. Meanwhile, work has been initiated on ground zero to establish two 500 bedded covid hospitals by DRDO in the coming days. According to the media bulletin, out of 4788 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19),1529 were reported from Jammu division and 3259 from Kashmir division. With 60 more deaths the death toll due to covid 19 saturday touched 2672.
On the recovery note, 2500 more COVID-19 patients were recovered and discharged from various hospitals including 910 from Jammu Division and 1590 from Kashmir Division. As a large number of people continue to remain in home isolation the death rate too is increasing alarmingly. On Saturday 10 patients were declared brought dead as they arrived very late in the hospital. The UT administration is spreading awareness across different platforms to immediately report symptoms of coronavirus to a specialist and avoid delay in receiving treatment to contain the death rate.
Keeping this in mind the UT administration has also decided to distribute Covid kits containing oximeter, basic medicines, prescribed as per protocol for patients in Home isolation to closely monitor their health.