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| 21% samples tests positive in Baramulla village | | People barred to offer congregational prayers for one week | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Apr 27: Twenty one percent samples tested positive during a mass sampling at Ferozpora village of Tangmarg Tehsil in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
It is learnt that despite District Magistrate Baramulla having declared Ferozpora village as a containment zone for COVID-19 disease on 22 April, it was reported that the inhabitants of the village have not followed the SOP’s during congregational prayers. Sources said that during mass sampling that was carried out on directions of district administration Baramulla 21% persons tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.
In view of supra paras and in the larger interest of lives of the general public of village Ferozpora, administration has ordered that all the congregational prayers in all mosques of the said village shall be strictly prohibited for a period of one week in the first instance, said sources.
Any violation to this shall invite punitive action, and the area is declared as a micro containment zone till further orders, the official added.
It was also learnt that, many SoP violators were fined in various parts of north Kashmir, earlier the district magistrates have declared some areas as containment zones, where people were impressed to follow SoPs in letter and spirit.
Few villages in the Sub Divisional Gulamrag where declared as micro containment zones and people have been advised not to roam unnecessarily and avoid huge gathering at common places.
Meanwhile, according to official figures, 197 have been reported positive today in Baramulla including185 others and 12 travellers and this is the second highest after Srinagar district, while 107 have recovered today and 192 deaths have occured so for.
However sources said that, attendant’s in the hospitals are facing numerous problems as the concerned authorities have failed to take care of cleanliness and other hygienic guidelines during this pandemic.
Pertinently, the district administration and the local Masjid committees have been regularly advising the people to follow SoPs and others norms so that spread of Covid-19 could be contained properly. |
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