Running out of time, the J&K Government has now launched a massive manhunt to track down over 1,000 identified contact people of coronavirus positive cases.
The police teams, officials of the State health department and other agencies have been tasked to immediately track down these people.
So far, the authorities have managed to trace 975 contact persons of majority of coronavirus positive cases.
Majority of those, who are still at large, are believed to have come in contact with the positive cases and pose a grave risk of spreading the virus among large sections of people in their neighbourhood.
According to Rohit Kansal, spokesman of the Jammu and Kashmir Government, “efforts are on to employ smart tracking and aggressive testing methods to isolate suspected cases of coronavirus to further prevent spread of the pandemic in Jammu and Kashmir”.
He said, we have identified 34 Red zones, 24 in Kashmir valley and 10 in Jammu division, where the entire government machinery is focusing all its energies to locate each one of the identified 2000 contact persons and put them to test.
He said, on Friday five fresh cases tested positive. Out of these four cases tested positive in Kashmir valley. All of them had come in contact with the already tested positive cases. One patient from Jammu tested positive, he added.
According to the daily status report, so far 75 cases have tested positive in Jammu and Kashmir. Out of these, 70 are active cases. One patient, admitted in the GMC, Jammu was discharged late Friday evening after she recovered fully and tested negative.
At present 16 patients are admitted in the isolation ward of Jammu Medical college hospital and 54 others in different hospitals of Kashmir valley. According to the hospital authorities, “all the patients are responding to the treatment and are stable Currently, no patient is on the ventilator support, the hospital authorities confirmed.
Meanwhile, the Government agencies have stepped up efforts to rush essential supplies to Kashmir valley.