369 return from Kota, students credit Dr Jitendra
Another treated in Jammu, cases down to 27
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 27: Two more persons in Kargil district in Ladakh tested positive for Coronavirus today taking tally of the UT to 22 and active cases to six-three each in Leh and Kargil districts while a COVID-19 laboratory has been set up in the UT for cost-effective sample testing.
Reports said two persons from village Sankoo in Kargil district, which has already been declared as Red Zone, have tested positive for COVID-19. They were being shifted from the village to COVID Hospital in Kargil.
With this, number of COVID patients in the Union Territory of Ladakh has gone up to 22. However, since 16 of them have already been treated and discharged, number of active cases was six only-three each in Leh and Kargil districts.
No Corona positive case was reported in the Jammu region today but another patient tested negative twice and was declared as treated and discharged taking number of cured persons to 30.
Jammu region has total 58 cases. With 30 of them treated and one death, active cases were now down to 27.
The patient who has been treated and discharged from the Chest Diseases Hospital, Jammu was a Tablighi Jamaat activist from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. He has been sent to a religious place in Sunjwan on the outskirts of Jammu where he was putting up when tested as positive for COVID.
Authorities have traced nearly 141 contacts of a teacher and Tablighi Jamaat associate from village Jamlan in Mahore tehsil of Reasi district, who was tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday.
All his contacts have been sent for quarantine and will be subjected to sample testing.
Meanwhile, a group of 369 students, hailing from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, reached at Lakhanpur, the gateway to the UT today, from Kota in Rajasthan.
Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Dr Jitendra Singh had spoken to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who happens to be Lok Sabha member from Kota, Rajasthan on evacuation of J&K students.
“More students will be evacuated from other parts of Rajasthan,” Dr Jitendra Singh said, adding that the Speaker has assured facilities for other stranded students of the UT in Kota till they are evacuated.
As soon as students reached Lakhanpur from Kota, they along with their parents expressed their gratitude to the personal efforts made by Dr Jitendra Singh in their evacuation to their home UT.
“We won’t forget the efforts of Dr Jitendra Singh in evacuating us from Kota and ensuring our return home,” they said.
Sources said students of J&K stranded at Pune will also be evacuated shortly.
Soon after their arrival at Lakhanpur, the students were screened for COVID-19 and later allowed to proceed to their home districts in the two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh where they would undergo administrative quarantine before joining their families.
Six students from Kargil, who had completed their quarantine period of 14 days in Kathua, also joined the group from Ladakh.
“The Jammu and Kashmir Government had dispatched 15 SRTC buses three days back to bring back 369 students who were left stranded in Kota due to the lockdown. The students entered Jammu and Kashmir this morning and were served breakfast at Lakhanpur.
“Eight buses with students of Kashmir and Ladakh left for Srinagar.” sources said.
Officials said a group of 57 students from Ladakh is travelling from Kota to their home districts of Leh and Kargil.
Meanwhile, A COVID-19 laboratory has been set up in the Union Territory of Ladakh to ensure timely and cost-effective sample testing, officials said.
Earlier, the samples had to be sent to Delhi by flights leading to delays and heavy expenditure, they said.
The COVID-19 testing laboratory, first such facility in the Union Territory, was set up with the help of Pernod Ricard India foundation, the officials said.
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