| Heartening! Single digit fresh positive cases of COVID-19 come to fore in JK | | Positive cases reach 350, active cases are 289 | | JEHANGIR RASHID
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 19: For a change single digit fresh positive cases of Corona Virus came to fore from the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. With today's nine fresh cases the positive cases have reached 350 in the union territory.
Reports said that while eight cases were reported from Kashmir valley one positive case surfaced from the Jammu division. Following today's cases the number of COVID-19 patients reached 295 in Kashmir while as the number of such patients in Jammu division is 55.
From the Kashmir valley the fresh cases were reported from Kupwara (four cases) followed by one case each from Srinagar, Kulgam, Bandipora and Baramulla districts. Rajouri district accounted for the fresh case from the Jammu division. Since 56 persons have recovered and five persons have died, the number of active positive cases in Jammu & Kashmir is 289.
The Jammu & Kashmir government through the media bulletin informed that nine new positive cases of novel Corona Virus (eight from Kashmir division and one from Jammu division), have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 350.
"Out of 350 positive cases, 289 are active positive, 56 have recovered and five have died. Furthermore, till date 61,331 travelers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance which include 5939 persons in home quarantine including facilities operated by government," said the bulletin.
The bulletin said that 289 persons are in hospital isolation, 264 in hospital quarantine and 23,868 are under home surveillance. Besides, 30,966 persons have completed their surveillance period so far. Moreover five more COVID-19 patients have recovered and were discharged today from JLNM Hospital, Srinagar.
The bulletin further said that out of 7,895 test results available, 7,545 samples have tested as negative till April 19, 2020. Bandipora has 81 positive cases wherein 69 are active positive, 11 recovered and one has died, Srinagar 79 positive cases with 56 active positive, 22 recovered and one died and Baramulla 43 positive cases with 41 active positive and two died.
"Kupwara has 31 positive cases and all are active cases; Shopian has 22 positive with 20 active positive, two recovered; Ganderbal has 14 positive cases and all are active positive, Budgam 13 positive cases of which six are active positive with seven recovered cases; Kulgam has six cases and all are active positive; Pulwama three positive cases with two active positive, one recovered; Anantnag district has three positive cases and all are active positive," reads the bulletin.
The bulletin said that Jammu has 26 positive cases of whom 22 are active positive and four have recovered, Udhampur 20 positive cases of which 14 are active positive, five recovered and one died, while as Samba district has four positive cases and all are active positive; Rajouri has four positive cases, one active positive and three cases have recovered. Meanwhile, Kishtwar has only one positive case who has recovered.
Meanwhile, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GoI has issued advisory against spraying of disinfectants such as Sodium Hypochlorite on people to disinfect them for COVID-19 management. According to the advisory, spraying of individuals or groups is not recommended under any circumstances. "Spraying an individual or group with chemical disinfectants is physically and psychologically harmful."
Furthermore, even if a person is potentially exposed with the COVID-19 virus, spraying the external part of the body does not kill the virus that has entered the body. Also there is no scientific evidence to suggest that they are effective even in disinfecting the outer clothing /body in an effective manner, the advisory said.
Spraying of chlorine on individuals, advisory said can lead to irritation of eyes and skin and potentially gastrointestinal effects such as nausea and vomiting. Inhalation of Sodium Hypochlorite can lead to irritation of mucous membranes to the nose, throat, respiratory tract and may also cause bronchospasm. Additionally, use of such measures may in fact lead to a false sense of disinfection & safety and actually hamper public observance to hand washing and social distancing measures. |
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