Night curfew extended in all 20 districts in JK
2030 Covid-19 cases, 8 deaths reported on Tuesday
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday extended the ongoing night curfew to all municipal and urban local body limits in view of the spike in COVID-19 cases.
The order and guidelines related to the curfew were announced by the Lieutenant Governor’s office in a series of tweets.
“The night curfew shall be extended to all municipal and urban local body limits of all 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. It was already in force in eight districts earlier, from 10 pm to 6 am,” the LG office tweeted.
It also said that public transport (matadors/mini-buses/buses) shall be permitted to ply only at 50 per cent of its authorised seating capacity. The district superintendents of police shall ensure compliance to this effect, it added.
“Only 50 per cent shops in market complexes/bazaars/malls within the municipal limits/urban local body limits shall be open on an alternate basis through a rotation system,” it said in another tweet.
It directed all the district magistrates to devise a mechanism to implement this, “preferably in consultation with local market associations”.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir reported 2030 new covid-19 cases, highest ever single day spike so far, while eight more people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday.
They said 944 of these cases were reported from Jammu Division and 1086 from Kashmir Valley, taking the overall case tally to 150238. In all, there were 352 travelers among the fresh cases.
Providing district wise details of the cases, the officials said that Srinagar reported 647 cases, Baramulla 136, Budgam 119, Pulwama 57, Kupwara 6, Anantnag 36, Bandipora 21, Ganderbal 16, Kulgam 35, Shopian 13, Jammu 501, Udhampur 81, Rajouri 34, Doda 13, Kathua 54, Samba 30, Kishtwar 19, Poonch 37, Ramban 32 and Reasi 143.
Regarding the fatalities, they said five were reported from Jammu Division and three from Kashmir Valley, taking the death toll to 2071.
The number of active cases also raced to 13470—5575 in Jammu division and 78965 in Kashmir Valley, they said.
Moreover, they said, 716 more COVID-19 patients have recovered, 177 from Jammu Division and 539 from Kashmir Division.
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