Ladakh’s death rate even worse Anantnag: Jammu and Kashmir has a higher death rate, in terms of Deaths per Lac (DPL) of population, due to Covid-19 than 20 other states (and UTs), which makes J&K behind only some of the worst-hit regions like Goa and Delhi. Within the J&K, Kashmir division is a notch worse […]
Only 703 doses given in last 4 days, zero on Sunday Anantnag: Covid-19 vaccines in Kashmir have gone down to zero after consistently going down in number over the past several days. As many as 2,76,181 fewer jabs have been administered in the first 15 days of May as compared to the last 15 days […]
Anantnag: In six premier hospitals of Srinagar, designated for Covid-19 treatment, only 6 ICU beds are vacant out of the 65 available in total, while more than 89 percent of the patients admitted to these hospitals are on oxygen support. Also, of the all 1,106 designated Covid beds (for isolation), only 253 were vacant on […]
Anantnag: A militant from Srinagar was among three killed in a gunfight with government forces in south Kashmir’s Kokernag village on Tuesday morning. The slain militants were identified as Ubaid Shafi alias Abdullah son of Mohammad Shafi Dar, a resident of Batamaloo in Srinagar, Ilyas Ahmad Dar alias Sameer son of Bashir Ahmad, a resident […]
Anantnag: The Trauma Hospital in Bijbehara, now designated for COVID-19, is so understaffed that there are only two paramedics and a single (lady) doctor available for the admitted patients, 44 of them at present. The hospital was designated as a COVID-19 hospital along with 14 other hospitals across Kashmir valley. Initially, only pregnant women who […]
ANANTNAG: The administration here in Pampore town of Pulwama district has failed to retrieve graveyard land from a family of squatters for the past twenty years now, even though the civil society of the town has been actively seeking action by officials of the revenue department. The land, part of a local graveyard in Kadlabal […]
More than 11k cases, 78 deaths in first five days of May Anantnag: The intensity of the second wave of Covid-19 here in Kashmir valley can be gauged by the fact that 35 percent of all infections reported in the ten districts of the valley since March last year have come since April 1 this […]
Anantnag: The Covid-19 designated hospital here in Akoora area of Anantnag district has all the makings of a disaster given that the hospital is devoid of even basic facilities like a diagnostic lab, X-Ray, and even security guards. This New Type Primary Health Centre (NTPHC) was under construction when the pandemic started last year. Many […]
Anantnag: A single ambulance is catering to needs of patients at Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH) here in Sherbagh area of Anantnag as two others have been lying defunct for more than 20 days now. The MCCH is the only maternity and child care hospital in entire south Kashmir and hundreds of people every […]
Anantnag: The Flu Centre of the Microbiology department, here at Government Medical College (GMC) hospital Anantnag, might turn out to be yet another hotspot for Covid-19 given that everyday people coming for an RT-PCR test are made to wait for hours, until a crowd swells with no one following social distancing norms. This is the […]