The newly appointed Lt- Governor Manoj Sinha, on day one at work, visited SMHS hospital in Srinagar and later reviewed Covid-19 control measures with a team of senior officers at Raj Bhawan on Saturday.
The total number of Coronavirus positive cases crossed 24,000 mark while 10 Covid-19 patients died in Kashmir division, taking the total tally to 459 . Spokesman of the Jammu and Kashmir government, Rohit Kansal in a tweet said, “Lt-Governor visited SMHS hospital, reviewed COVID situation on Saturday”. He said on noticing shortage of ward staff in isolation wards, Lt -Gov Manoj Sinha directed immediate appointment, on a short term basis, of 200 nursing orderlies (100 each for Kashmir and Jammu) to attend to COVID patients in isolation.
During the review meeting, Lt Gov Sinha announced the J&K Government is considering providing additional support to Health Workers and Frontline Corona Warriors in addition to the existing insurance cover of Rs 50 lakhs”.
Briefing about the preparedness for COVID-19 in J&K, Financial Commissioner Health and Medical Education, Atal Dulloo informed the Lt Governor that Rapid Antigen Test is being conducted with 18,000 tests done in the last 5 days. 432 Ventilators received from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India are in the process of installation in various health institutions and 342 ventilators are in transit.
He informed that there are around 7,266 active positive cases out of 24,390 confirmed positive cases in J&K with a recovery rate of 67.78 percent and 56,707 Tests per Million population.
It was informed that the samples of 2,95,878 number of travellers, 83,016 persons in contact and 8,621 health care workers have been taken so far.
According to the media bulletin, 463 new positive cases of Coronavirus were detected,81 from Jammu division and 382 from Kashmir division. Also 10 COVID-19 deaths were reported from Kashmir Division.
According to the media bulletin, out of 24390 positive cases, 7264 are Active Positive, 16667 have recovered and 459 have died; 34 in Jammu division and 425 in Kashmir division.