2 more with travel history test +ve in Samba
*17,000 stranded people brought to J&K: Dr Jitendra
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 1: In a significant decision ahead of announcement of relaxations during third phase of lockdown from May 4-17, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken off four districts of Jammu and Kashmir from ‘Hotspot’ category but included in it two new districts from the Valley, which were reporting fresh cases, keeping four districts of the Union Territory in Red Zone, 12 in Orange and four in Green.
Entire Union Territory of Ladakh has been listed in the category of Orange Zone.
Meanwhile, after four days of no Corona case, two more COVID-19 positive cases were today reported from Samba district of Jammu taking total cases in the region to 60 and active cases to eight. With this, Samba district which had recently become Corona-free after successful treatment of its all four patients, has again joined the category of districts having positive cases.
Doctors said two persons hailing from Samba district tested positive for COVID-19 today. They had travel history to New Delhi and Mumbai.
SSP Samba Shakti Pathak told the Excelsior that the duo tested positive were put under administrative quarantine at a resort in Ghagwal in Samba district soon after their arrival from New Delhi and Mumbai on April 29. One of them had come in a truck and another in an official bus from Lakhanpur after reaching there.
One of the positive patient, a 32-year old, hailed from village Chan in Ghagwal and another, a 40-year old, belonged to village Sola, Rattanpur in Ghagwal, Samba. Both of them were truck drivers.
“Soon after the duo reported positive for Coronavirus, they were shifted from the quarantine centre to the Chest Diseases Hospital in Bakshi Nagar,” Pathak said, adding both were asymptomatic.
He said that the area where quarantine centre was located has been sealed. All the people in quarantine centre will be subjected to sample testing. Other people with whom the truck drivers had come in contact after entering Lakhanpur are also being searched to quarantine them and subject them to sample testing. One of them had come from New Delhi and another from Mumbai.
Sources said one of the truck drivers had reached Ghagwal in a bus from Lakhanpur and all persons travelling in the bus will be traced and subjected to sample testing as they too are already on quarantine. However, both of them hadn’t visited their houses after their arrival at Ghagwal as they were straightway sent to quarantine centre.
Jammu region now has 60 Corona positive cases, 51 of whom have recovered and discharged from the hospitals while there is one death, leaving eight active cases.
Meanwhile, the fresh classification of the district across all States and Union Territories of the country was released today by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Previous such list was released on April 16 which has been superseded.
Jammu and Udhampur districts of Jammu region which were `Hotspot’ districts in the previous list have been taken off from Red Zone and were listed in Orange Zone category following recovery of majority of patients there. While all 26 Corona positive cases in Jammu district have been successfully treated by the doctors and discharged from the hospitals, only two COVID cases were left in Udhampur district from out of 20 as 17 others have recovered while there was one death of a woman.
Four districts of Jammu and Kashmir which now fall in the Red Zone are Bandipora, Shopian, Anantnag and Srinagar, all in Kashmir Valley. There is no district of Jammu region in the Red Zone now.
In the previous list, Baramulla and Kupwara were `Hotspot’ districts but they have now switched over to Orange Zone and have been replaced by Shopian and Anantnag as these two districts were reporting more COVID-19 positive cases while Baramulla and Kupwara showed decline in the new cases.
Seven districts of Jammu region now fall in Orange Zone including Jammu, Udhampur, Samba, Kathua, Rajouri, Ramban and Reasi while three districts of the region which have been classified as Green Zone are Kishtwar, Doda and Poonch.
All seven districts mentioned as Orange Zone have reported COVID-19 positive cases. Jammu district had 26 cases but all of them have been treated while Udhampur had 20, 17 of whom have been discharged after treatment. Samba had four cases and all of them were cured and all of them were treated and sent home. However, Samba reported two fresh Corona positive cases today. Rajouri too had four cases but three of them have been treated and discharged leaving just one positive case. Reasi, Ramban and Kathua districts have one positive case each.
Kishtwar, Doda and Poonch districts, which have been listed in Orange Zone haven’t reported a single COVID-19 positive case so far.
Pulwama is the only district of Kashmir which has been classified as Green Zone while five districts of the Valley fall in Orange Zone including Baramulla, Kupwara, Ganderbal, Kulgam and Budgam.
Meanwhile, entire Union Territory of Ladakh has been classified as Orange Zone.
Leh and Kargil, the two districts which comprised the UT of Ladakh have been listed as Orange Zone.
Ladakh had total of 22 Coronavirus cases. Of them, 17 have been successfully treated and sent home leaving five active cases including three in Kargil district and two in Leh. Condition of all five active cases in Ladakh is stable.
Meanwhile, 2500 more inhabitants of Jammu and Kashmir stranded in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and other States today crossed Lakhanpur and were sent for administrative quarantine in Kathua and Samba district besides their respective district headquarters where they were sent in official buses, Deputy Commissioner Kathua OP Bhagat said.
A total of 17,000 stranded persons have crossed Lakhanpur since April 25 and were sent to their respective district headquarters for administrative quarantine.
Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Dr Jitendra tweeted photographs of police carrying luggage of stranded people reaching Lakhanpur to facilitate their entry into the UT and further to their district headquarters.
“Passengers arriving at Lakhanpur entry point of Jammu and Kashmir being assisted with their luggage by Kathua police, which has walked extra mile in fight against Coronavirus,” Dr Jitendra Singh tweeted tagging two photographs of the cops helping the stranded people on their arrival at Lakhanpur.
Dr Jitendra Singh said over 17,000 stranded labourers and students from different parts of country, also 376 students from Kota, Rajasthan have returned to Jammu and Kashmr via Lakhanpur, Kathua till yesterday.
“All working day and night to make this possible, Please cooperate,” he further tweeted.
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