Pampore: Nearly 147 people in Pampore, who hid their travel history to Coronavirus affected countries, have been identified and shifted to quarantine facilities, officials said on Friday. They told Kashmir Reader that surveillance teams, which have been constituted for tracing people with a travel history and their contacts, visited different areas of Pampore including Kakapora […]
Kollam: A young IAS officer in Kerala has been booked by police after he left the state violating instructions to remain under home quarantine following his recent return from honeymoon abroad, officials said on Friday. An FIR has been registered against Kollam sub-collector Anupam Mishra, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, based on a report from the […]
Srinagar: District Magistrate Pulwama on Thursday declared several mosques in the district as quarantine facilities. An order issued by DC Pulwama Raghav Langar said “People of Tableegi Jamaat are travelling from various areas to district Pulwama due to which there is every apprehension of spread of COVID-19 infection in the area.” It said that mostly, […]
Srinagar:Prosecution proceedings have been initiated against the Principal of the Degree College at Tral in Pulwama district for violating the district administration’s orders and not providing the requisite equipment for newly established quarantine facilities, an official said Thursday. “Prosecution proceedings have been initiated against Principal, Degree College, Tral for violating orders of district administration and […]
New Delhi: The Indian Army has started the process of identifying additional infrastructure for setting up quarantine centres in each station for its personnel to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, senior officials said on Thursday. The Army is also preparing a plan to “sidestep” medical personnel from lesser virus-affected areas to those severely affected by […]
Srinagar:Forty-eight people, who had come in contact with the first coronavirus fatality in Kashmir, are in quarantine and authorities are in touch with the states visited by the man to track those who may have been infected by him, an official said on Thursday. The 65-year-old man, hailing from Hyderpora area of the city here, […]
BARAMULLA: Over 353 people are under surveillance and 40 are in different quarantine centres in district Baramulla to contain deadly Covid-19 virus. Official sources in Health department said that 353 people who came from outside the state or from other countries are under surveillance in which 40 people are in different quarantine centres setup by […]
JAMMU: The Government is drawing a comprehensive plan to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic by increasing the isolation and quarantine facilities across Jammu and Kashmir. The government has decided to close routine activities in identified hospitals and converting others into isolation and quarantine facilities to face any eventuality. The decision in this regard was taken […]
SRINAGAR: A reputed bookshop and publishing house in Srinagar has donated 1,000 books to various quarantine centres that have been setup in Kashmir due to coronavirus outbreak. Gulshan Books Kashmir said the books will help the people housed at the isolation centres make good use of their time. “We are utterly happy to have donated […]
Srinagar: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) JK spokesman Altaf Thakur on Monday urged the Jammu and Kashmir administration led by Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandera Murmu to set up a “specialized single quarantine facility centre” in both regions of Kashmir and Jammu where suspects of Covid-19 can be quarantined. A statement said, Thakur said that Minister of […]