Jammu: A 100-year-old man has died in a quarantine centre in Udhampur district but his Covid-19 test report has come negative, a senior government official said on Sunday. The man and his brother were shifted to a quarantine facility a few days ago as a precautionary measure after it came to light that they had […]
Jammu: A 100-year-old man has died in a quarantine centre in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir but his COVID-19 test report has come negative, a senior government official said on Sunday. The man and his brother were shifted to a quarantine facility a few days ago as a precautionary measure after it came to […]
Baramulla / Pampore: At least 75 people were discharged after completing two-week quarantine in Baramulla and Pampore on Saturday. 33 students including 23 in Sopore and 10 in Baramulla have successfully completed their 14-day quarantine period. In Baramulla, the suspected students were shifted to a local hotel, who had returned from different places within and […]
Urge admin to send them home
SRINAGAR: People from various areas of Kashmir kept in quarantine at Kendra Vidyalaya School in Kathu are outraged over the lack of medical facilities, saying they also went on hunger strike over this issue. They told Kashmir Reader that they were shifted to quarantine centre on different dates last month by the district administration Kathua. […]
NEW DELHI: Nearly 22,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined across the country so far, a home ministry official said on Saturday. During the daily briefing, Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters that the Union government undertook “massive efforts” in coordination with states to trace […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told chief ministers to focus on Covid-19 containment measures — testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine — in the next few weeks with a common goal to ensure minimum loss of life, and pitched for formulating a “staggered” exit strategy from the ongoing lockdown. As the country witnessed […]
Shopian: People with travel history with Kashmir’s first positive Coronavirus patient have been sent to quarantine again on Thursday. Eleven people from Shopain have travelled with the first Corona case from Saudi Arabia last month. According to officials, ten people among them have been taken for quarantine again as eleventh of them were found positive. […]
NEW DELHI: About 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country in view of the coronavirus infection, a senior home ministry official said on Thursday. Punya Salila Srivastava, a joint secretary in the Union Home Ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing that out of about 2,000 […]
SRINAGAR: Two hundred and thirty-six more persons who were shifted into administrative quarantine upon their return to Srinagar two weeks ago were discharged Wednesday after successfully completing their 14-day quarantine period. All these persons shifted into well-equipped hotels and government accommodations had returned from different overseas countries with most of them having returned from Bangladesh, […]
Let’s learn from history and follow tried and tested methods to save our lives
Owais Ismaeil The centuries-old strategy of quarantine is today the fundamental means of responding to outbreak of infectious diseases. The modern state of J&K came into existence in 1846 with the Treaty of Amritsar through which the British transferred Jammu and Kashmir to Dogra Maharaja Gulab Singh. During the early part of Dogra rule (1846-1900), […]