With total number of coronavirus positive cases inching closer to 100 in Jammu & Kashmir, the Government agencies are slogging on ground zero to track down each one of the 2000 contact persons of positive cases. So far over 1000 cases have been tracked down and efforts are on reach out to majority of these cases as they run the risk of spreading the virus in different pockets of J&K.
On Saturday, highest number of seventeen (17) cases tested positive, 14 from Kashmir division and 3 from Jammu division.
According to official sources, 92 cases have so far tested positive in J&K while total number of active cases stood at 86. Four patients have been discharged from the hospital after they recovered fully and two deaths have been reported from Kashmir division. According to the daily bulletin released by the health department, test reports of 55 patients were still awaited.
According to official sources, around 86 patients with high viral load have been isolated in the different covid hospitals in both Srinagar and Jammu and being taken care of.
Out of 17 fresh cases, three positive cases were reported from Narsoo, in Udhampur district. According to Rohit Kansal, spokesman of Jammu & Kashmir Government, "the reported cases were all contacts of a positive patient from Udhampur with travel history abroad".