75 test -ve, sent for home quarantine in Jammu
*Several Poonch areas declared Red, Buffer Zones
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 17: Four contacts of an elderly man from Digiana in Jammu who had recently died of Coronavirus tested positive including a four-year-old girl child taking tally of COVID patients in Jammu region to 149 and active cases to 86 while 905 persons reached Jammu Railway Station and 1315 at Udhampur from different parts of the country in the special trains today.
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District Magistrate Jammu Sushma Chouhan told the Excelsior that that 905 persons today reached Jammu Railway Station in the special train from New Delhi, 300 of whom belonged to Jammu district and rest to other parts of the Union Territory.
Jammu is the only district where all persons arriving from the train are being sampled for Coronavirus at one place i.e. the Railway Station itself with the help of Health workers.
Chouhan said nearly 75 persons, who had reached here from special train from New Delhi during last four days, have been allowed to go home from administrative quarantine centres in the district, for home quarantine for next 14 days after they tested negative for COVID-19.
“We have adopted two-pronged strategy to keep watch on the people during their home quarantine. First, a poster will be pasted outside house of such people with ‘Home Quarantine’ mentioned on it and second, their location will also be monitored through mobile telephones,” Chouhan said.
She added that 300 persons of Jammu district who reached here by train today were sent for administrative quarantine after sampling while 605 others were sent to their respective district headquarters in the Government buses after their samples were taken at the Railway Station.
So far, four trains have reached Jammu Railway Station from New Delhi carrying a total of 3768 stranded passengers hailing from different parts of the Union Territory.
At Udhampur Railway Station, eighth ‘Sharamik Special’ train reached carrying 1315 passengers, who were sent to their respective district headquarters in the Government buses. Samples of some of the persons are being taken at Chenani in Udhampur district.
From Lakhanpur, the gateway to Jammu and Kashmir, 2470 persons reached from different States today taking total number of stranded persons crossing Lakhanpur to 54,866.
Deputy Commissioner Poonch Rahul Yadav today declared village Hari as Red Zone as one person hailing from the village had tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday during administrative quarantine as he had returned from outside Jammu and Kashmir.
“The High Secondary School, Hari has been declared as Quarantine Centre for the persons who had come in contact with Corona positive patient during quarantine, bus journey and sampling. Area within the radius of 300 meters of the quarantine centre has been declared as Containment Zone,” an order issued by Yadav said.
He said village Hari has been declared as Red Zone and its adjacent villages like Mohra Bachai, Sangla, Marhoti and Dodi were declared as Buffer Zone. He said there will be complete lockdown in the villages including Hari, Mohra Bachai, Sangla, Marhote, Dodi, Arai, Plera, Chikri, Sanai Upper and Mohra Jaya (Panchayat Surankote).
Meanwhile, four more persons today tested positive for COVID-19 in Jammu district taking total number of Corona patients in Jammu region to 149 and active cases to 86. Sixty patients have been treated and discharged from the COVID Hospital while there have been two deaths in the region.
All four persons tested positive for COVID-19 today were contacts of a man from Preet Nagar, Digiana in Jammu district, who had died recently and then tested Corona positive, becoming second COVID casualty in the region.
Some of them had visited Preet Nagar residence of the victim to inquire his condition.
The positives included two men aged 35 and 60 years, a woman aged 39 and a female child of four years of age.
All of them have been admitted in the Chest Diseases Hospital, Bakshi Nagar Jammu, Medical Superintendent Dr Rajeshwar Sharma said, adding that all of them were asymptomatic.
“There are now 65 patients admitted in the Chest Diseases Hospital and all of them are asymptomatic and in stable condition,” Dr Sharma said.
Jammu district now had highest number of 45 cases including 17 active followed by Udhampur which has 25 cases including five active. Kathua has 32 cases and 31 of them are active, Ramban has 23 cases with 22 active while Samba has 13 cases and seven of them are active.
Rajouri district has just five cases and only one of them isactive while Reasi has three cases with two active. Poonch has only one Corona positive case, reported yesterday.
Doda and Kishtwar districts have not reported any Corona case so far.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Bhawani Nowshera in Rajouri district where a positive case of Coronavirus has been reported recently have demanded sanitizing, the area and creation of isolation zones as the women who turned positive had come from Delhi along with six people carrying the dead body of her mother in-law for cremation at Kalsian.
Sunil Chowdhary Sarpanch Bhawani and Manjit Kumar a social activist of the area said that many people visited the residence of bereaved family and also joined the cremation.
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