Srinagar: Block Medical Officer (BMO) Bandipora Dr Asif Khan has put himself in self-isolation after ferrying a coronavirus positive patient in his personal vehicle from GMC Baramulla to a quarantine center in Bandipora. According to sources, Dr Khan shifted the 30-year-old patient, whose samples tested positive for novel coronavirus at SKIMS Soura today, from Government […]
Srinagar: Nearly 100 Kashmiri students are stranded at Benapole check post, near India-Bangladesh border after India sealed its borders with the neighbouring countries due to Coronavirus. The students left their respective colleges on Monday to return to their native places after Bangladesh decided to lockdown all educational institutions following the Coronavirus threat. “We have been […]
Srinagar: Thw Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura, on Tuesday decided to suspend all routine admissions in the hospital to prevent spread of novel coronavirus and to have more room for patients in case of a spike in the number of cases. Medical Superintendent of SKIMS Soura, Dr Farooq A Jan told Kashmir Reader […]
Srinagar: octors and critical care health workers have raised concern over the preparedness of government hospitals of J&K to fight the novel coronavirus. They have appealed to the government to keep dedicated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities available with ventilators to tackle any escalation of COVID 19 cases. “We need as many ventilators as we […]
Srinagar: Almost 40 fellow Umrah pilgrims from Kashmir were travelling alongside the Srinagar woman tested positive for novel coronavirus in the flight from Jeddah that landed at Srinagar airport on March 16. After news reached them that one of their co-travellers had been tested positive, most of them self-isolated themselves at their homes and are […]
Srinagar: Two close relatives of the patient who tested positive for COVID 19 on Wednesday were tested negative of coronavirus infection at SKIMS Soura on Friday. “Three test reports of suspected coronavirus patients came negative today. Of these, two were of close relatives of the elderly woman who tested positive on Wednesday. The third one […]
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole on Friday said that he had asked the Deputy Commissioner Budgam to submit a detailed report about passengers from an international flight walking out of the Srinagar airport on Wednesday without screening or quarantine for coronavirus. “I have asked the report and detailed factual position from DC Budgam about […]
Srinagar: The elderly woman who was tested positive for coronavirus in Kashmir on Wednesday had escaped mandatory quarantine on arrival from Saudi Arabia as she walked out of the Srinagar airport using the VIP exit gate after her influential relative intervened, Kashmir Reader has learnt. Official sources told Kashmir Reader that the woman from Khanyar, […]
Two relatives of coronavirus patients test positive in Ladakh
Srinagar: The Srinagar district administration on Wednesday banned the entry of passengers from Ladakh with immediate effect and suspended special aircraft services for them in the wake of the novel coronavirus threat. As per the order issued by Additional District Magistrate Srinagar Hanief Balki, under National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Act-2005, no passenger coming from […]
Six test negative in Kashmir, no new positive case in J&K
Srinagar: Health authorities on Tuesday said that three new suspected cases of novel coronavirus have been reported in Kashmir while 21 others are still under hospital-based quarantine awaiting complete recovery even though their test reports came negative. Medical Superintendent of SKIMS Soura, Dr Farooq A Jan told Kashmir Reader that they received a new suspected […]