Covid19
J&K sees a sudden spike in Covid19
Srinagar/IBNS: J&K reported 150 fresh covid19 cases in the last 24 hours.
On Sunday the union territory reported 105 cases followed by 86 cases on Monday.
The main reason for the spread of infection this time, according to medical experts, was the delta variant coupled with non-adherence of Covid Appropriate Behavior (CAB).
On Tuesday, the daily caseload reported in J&K was 150, which was 64 cases higher than the day before.
As per the official figures shared by the Health Department, of the total 150 cases reported in the last 24 hours, 38 were from the Jammu division and 112 from Kashmir, taking the total number of cases since the outbreak of the pandemic to 3,27,140.
The total fatalities recorded in J&K have reached 4,414 of which 2,246 were from Kashmir and 2,168 were from the Jammu division.
As per the Health Department, Srinagar reported the highest number of cases on Tuesday as compared to other districts. The number of cases reported from the Srinagar district was 75 while Baramulla and Reasi districts reported 10 cases each.
Budgam reported 11 cases while Pulwama and Poonch districts reported four cases each. Kupwara, Bandipora and Ganderbal reported three cases each while Anantnag and Kishtwar district reported two cases each.
One each case was reported from Kulgam, Kathua and Ramban districts while no case was reported from Shopian, Udhampur and Samba districts.
Notably, the spike in covid-19 cases coincides with the government decided to start physical classes for secondary and higher secondary class students in schools.
Also, the colleges and universities are likely to open in September last week, the government earlier said.
Meanwhile, the government bulletin on covid19 cases states that around 72 more persons- 25 from the Jammu division and 47 from Kashmir, who were infected by Covid-19 recovered and were discharged from various hospitals.
The Health Department said no new confirmed case of Mucormycosis was reported on Tuesday, keeping the total number of such cases in J&K at 46.
According to the daily media bulletin on the novel Coronavirus, of the 3,27,140 positive cases, 1,235 are active positive while 3,21,401 people have recovered and been discharged and 4414 have died – 2,168 in Jammu division and 2,246 in Kashmir.
It said that of the 1,40,34,141 test results available, 1,37,07,001 samples have tested negative till Tuesday.
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