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Coronavirus threat: Govt starts testing lab at SKIMS, one admitted at SMHS hospital

Coronavirus threat: Govt starts testing lab at SKIMS, one admitted at SMHS hospital
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Srinagar, Mar 09: AS more than 300 people in Jammu and Kashmir have been kept under surveillance for the COVID-19 virus, the government Monday announced that a testing facility has been created at SKIMS hospital. Meanwhile, SMHS hospital in Srinagar admitted first patient to be quarantined following his condition replicating as that of COVID-19 infections.  

They said there are over 300 people now are under “active surveillance” in Jammu and Kashmir.  

“One woman who returned from Iran has tested positive,” Dr Shafaqat Khan, Nodal Officer, coronavirus control Jammu and Kashmir, said.

J&K’s Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam said that the woman has contacted 19 persons who have now been put under surveillance and are being quarantined.   

The top officer of the J&K UT said there are nearly 300 persons who are under “active surveillance”. Besides, he said that there are several hundred people under “surveillance” and mostly in Jammu’s Sarwal area.

 He also informed that SKIMS lab is now functional for carrying out tests for coronovirus.     

Director Health Service Kashmir, Dr Sumir Mattoo said that there were 195 people under “active surveillance” and 87 of them have completed “surveillance time”.

He said that 108 are under active surveillance now. Regarding people admitted in hospitals, he said, four are in SKIMS isolation facility and one has been admitted in similar facility in SMHS hospital. A senior doctor of SKIMS, Kashmir’s only tertiary care hospital, said that six patients were admitted so far and two of them, one of them yesterday, have been discharged.  (with inputs from GNS) 


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