J&K logs 2,766 fresh Covid cases; recovery rate 84%

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir on Friday recorded 2,766 fresh Covid infections and 56 deaths, taking the overall cases to 2, 84,431 and death toll to 3,795.

The number of patients who recovered in the UT on Friday was 3,637, including 1,896 from Kashmir and 1,741 from Jammu. In Srinagar, the positivity rate has now gone below 10%.

The total number of people who recovered reached 2,39,252, improving the recovery rate to 84%. The number of active cases has further dropped to 41,382. Of the deaths on Friday, 30 were reported in Jammu division and 26 in Kashmir.

The number of infections in the month of May breached all records reaching 1,05,545; fatalities reached 1,457 on Thursday. The number of patients who have recovered from the disease this month so far is over 93,000. The month witnessed the peak of the second wave in the first half and is now seeing a plateau in the second.

Officials said with 382 cases, Srinagar had the highest number of new infections, followed by 320 in Jammu district. The deputy commissioner of Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad, said the district had shown a significant decline in positive cases and hospital admissions in past few days.

“The positivity rate has declined from 36% in mid of May to 8.7% on May 27. The recovery rate has reached 83%. There are about 5,800 active cases in the district,” he said.

L-G orders enforcement of test-track-treat protocol in UT

Asserting that there should be no compromise on Covid-appropriate behaviour, Lt governor Manoj Sinha on Friday called for strict enforcement of the test-track-treat protocol and long-term solution to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. He impressed upon officers to make synergised efforts to augment vaccination with focus on priority groups.

“(There should be) no compromise on Covid-appropriate behaviour. Strict enforcement of test-track-treat protocol and vaccination is the only longterm solution to mitigate the spread of coronavirus,” the Lieutenant Governor said while chairing a series of meetings with the Covid task force, Deputy Commissioners and SPs of the UT, at the Civil Secretariat here. The meetings were the latest in the series, where Sinha took a comprehensive review of the Covid situation across J&K.

The L-G has been issuing directions from time to time to strengthen the efforts and undertake immediate interventions to tackle the pandemic based on regular assessment from experts.

With substantial addition of medical infrastructure and stabilising positivity rate across the UT, the way ahead is to minimise health risks.