Two deaths, 145 new cases reported in UT
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: With the new COVID variant Omicron scaring the world, the night curfew timing in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been reviewed and revised on Sunday amid peak of the wedding season.
Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in its latest communication on restrictions for Covi9d containment has stated, “Whereas it was observed that there is a need to continue with the existing COVID containment measures in all Districts in view of the uneven trend observed in daily Covid cases as well as rising positivity rate.”
According to a Government Order, “Night Curfew shall continue to remain in force in all districts from 9 pm to 6 am but for those districts with positivity rate below 0.2 and weekly case load below 250 where it would be from 11 pm to 6 am”.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir recorded 145 fresh COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours, taking the number of those infected to 3,36,531, while two new deaths due to the virus raised the toll to 4,475, officials said.
Eighteen of the fresh cases were from the Jammu division and 127 from the Kashmir division of the Union Territory, the officials said.
They said Srinagar district recorded a maximum of 61 new COVID-19 cases followed by 31 cases in Baramulla district.
There are 1,658 active cases in the UT, while the number of recoveries stands at 3,30,398, the officials said.
Twenty seven people tested positive for Covid-19 in Ladakh in last one day, taking the overall virus tally in the Union Territory (UT) to 21,494 and active cases to 249, an official statement said.
Ladakh has registered 213 Covid-related deaths — 155 in Leh and 58 in Kargil — since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
Of 2,366 people tested for Covid-19 on Saturday, 25 were found infected in Leh and two in Kargil.
Twenty coronavirus patients were discharged from a hospital in Leh and one in kargil, taking the number of recoveries in Ladakh to 21,032, which is 97.85 per cent of the caseload, the statement said.
There are at present 229 active cases in Leh and 20 in Kargil.
There has been a spike in Covid-19 cases since the beginning of this month in Leh district, prompting the authorities to impose certain restrictions including night curfew and closure of all schools and residential hostels besides intensifying testing and imposing of fine on COVID norm violators.