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MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020 (PAGE 4) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU From page 1 First Army jawan, second doctor, Tablighi Coronavirus cases inch closer to 9000 contact among 4 more +ve in Jammu; total 48 have been cured and discharged activities like in the farming sec- over hundreds of miles to their plan to improve the country’s so far. tor in regions with no COVID- home districts. economic activity and provide Seventeen persons were tested police station headed by Inspector According to the latest 19 cases. In the report titled "South liquidity in the hands of the peo- positive for COVID-19 in Kashmir Chanchal Singh have sealed Bohri Union Health Ministry update, The Centre in consultation Asia Economic Update: Impact ple. today taking total number of cases Chowk and surrounding areas as as many as 918 COVID-19 with states is moving to restart of COVID-19", the report at the “These new activities are in the Valley to 197 and that of the they were declared as Red Zones cases and 34 deaths have been economic activities in a graded same time said migrant workers essential to improve the eco- Union Territory of Jammu and by the administration after the doc- reported in the last 24 hours, tak- manner in what is seen as a returning home could become nomic activity and provide liq- Kashmir to 245. However, out of tor tested positive. ing the total number of such nuanced change in strategy from vectors carrying the coronavirus uidity in the hands of the peo- 245 total cases, number of active A 29-year old resident of cases to 8,447 and the fatalities saving lives a month ago to sav- to unaffected states and villages ple,” the DPIIT said in its letter cases stood at 235-44 in Jammu Jawahar Nagar, Satwari, who had to 273. It said 765 people have ing lives as well as livelihoods and that preliminary findings to Home Secretary Ajay Kumar and 191 in Kashmir with four come in contact with a Tablighi so far recovered from the infec- now in the fight against the pan- indicated in India many out- Bhalla, deaths-one in Jammu and three in Jamaat cadre at local religious tion. demic. migration areas are likely to “It is felt that certain more Kashmir and six recoveries and place, has also tested positive for The number of cases crossed It has sought inputs related to have COVID-19 cases. activities with reasonable safe- subsequent discharge from the hos- Coronavirus. The Tablighi had Security forces conducting search operation in Ramgarh vil- 1,000 in Tamil Nadu which now production, labour and logistics The Centre has asked the guards should be allowed once a pitals-three each in both divisions. attended the function at local reli- lage on Sunday. -Excelsior/Gautam joins Maharashtra and Delhi to from clusters in five key sectors state and union territories to take final decision regarding exten- Among 245 COVID-19 gious place of Satwari after Bari have a maximum number of to ascertain expected output if welfare measures for the sion and nature of lockdown is patients in Jammu and Kashmir, Brahamana and later left for positive COVID-19 infections. they are made operational with- migrant labourers living in taken by the central govern- Searches in Ramgarh this is for the first time that an Army Srinagar where he was tested The ministry also asserted in a fortnight and procedural camps in different parts of the ment,” the letter said, making a search operation was called off. ings but no one was found. soldier has tested positive for COVID-19 positive and has since that the government is "extra support required, official country that include food, shel- strong push for these activities However, SSP Samba, Later the search operation was Coronavirus though he was posted died. prepared" if there is an exponen- sources said. ter, medicine, mobile and video in addition to those already Shakti Pathak along with secu- called off as no suspect was at Agra in Uttar Pradesh and was on All family members of the tial rise in the number of coron- The five sectors are textiles, call facilities. allowed under various notifica- rity forces today again found any where. However leave staying at his residence at vil- Tablighi contact have been sent to avirus patients. chemicals, electronics, steel and The Bihar government also tions of the MHA. launched the search operation police and security forces are lage Chack Ramchand in Supwal Teachers Bhawan in Gandhi Nagar Addressing a press briefing, pharmaceutical, the sources reached out and provided relief The exit plan from the lock- in the area and searched the still maintaining vigil in the area of Samba district while a den- for quarantine and the area has Health Ministry's Joint said. to over 5 lakh distressed resi- down is recommended after get- entire village and its surround- area, sources said. tist was second doctor to be infect- been sealed by Satwari police sta- Secretary Lav Agarwal said the States are likely to designate dents of the state stranded in ting suggestions from a detailed ed with virus in the Jammu region. tion teams led by SHO Gurmeet government is expanding the districts, towns and cities as red, Delhi and other parts of the interaction with various states 3 including child killed in SSP Samba Shakti Pathak Singh. COVID-19 testing capacity in orange and green zones depend- country, a senior official said in and industry bodies, the letter told the Excelsior that 34-year A 46-year old male, originally state-run as well as private med- ing upon the number of COVID- Patna. said. Pak shelling, 7 injured old Army jawan had travelled in a resident of Ramnagar in ical colleges. 19 case as part of efforts to allow The Karnataka Government The plan also emphasises on the same bogey of the train in Udhampur district and presently "We are working on an differentiated restoration of nor- said it is studying in-depth the social distancing, sanitisation troops targeted civilian areas. forward villages and the which Tablighi Jamaat cadre living at EWS Colony in Lower urgent basis to expand the malcy with conditions like uses consequences of possible relax- and spacing. "Pakistan now targeting civilian Indian Army was giving befit- were returning to Jammu from Roop Nagar, tested positive today capacity for COVID-19 testing of masks and social distancing ation of lockdown norms after There was no reaction from population in Kupwara Sector ting response to Pakistan, Nizamuddin on March 18. The after remaining hospitalized at in government and private med- in public. April 14 and plans to come out the home ministry on Sunday to near the Line of Control result- according to latest reports. jawan had boarded the train ASCOMS Sidhra since April 5. He ical colleges across the country. Union Minister Nitin with a clear roadmap in a day or DPIIT’s letter. ing in the killing of three inno- Several houses were from Agra, where he was posted, was intitially under treatment of Fourteen mentor institutes, Gadkari said talks are underway two, according to Medical The letter also noted that cent civilians including one damaged in forward village while Tablighis had taken the liver-related ailments. including the AIIMS and with State Governments to re- Education Minister Sudhakar other Ministries like the same train from Nizamuddin in He was symptomatic and NIMHANS, have been identi- start highway construction proj- K. Agriculture ministry may be New Delhi. was sent for sample testing by fied to mentor the medical col- ects where migrant labourers Kerala, which was the first approaching the MHA separate- The jawan was kept under the private hospital authorities. leges and expand the coron- can be gainfully employed, state in the country to report a ly for allowing activities like quarantine for 14 days and He has been admitted in avirus testing capacity," he In a video-conference with coronavirus infection in late harvesting etc. That they consid- remained asymptomatic. He was Isolation Ward of the added. PTI, the Road Transport, high- January, has prepared a time ered crucial. discharged from quarantine and Government Medical College in According to ICMR offi- ways and MSME Minister said table for coming out of the lock- Further, it has stated that allowed to go home on April 2. critical condition. Doctors have cials, a total of 1,86,906 samples efforts are on for facilitating safe down and there would be dis- housing and construction sectors Samples of the soldier and his wife put him on ventilator. have so far been tested across return of migrant labourers, an trict-specific strategies to tackle need to be allowed if the labour- were taken during random check- Meanwhile, police has been the country, of which 7,953 have estimated 20 lakh of whom are the situation while the number ers stay at the sites with all facil- ing, Pathak said, adding the jawan deployed outside ASCOMS Sidhra been found positive for COVID- in shelters pan-India. of cases are on the decline. ities and safeguards. tested positive while her wife was and entire staff which has attended 19. "I had a meeting with road Ramping up efforts to Contractors shall ensure safety, negative. the patient has been sent on quar- "In the last five days, on an sector officials. Work can be re- "stamp out" coronavirus cases in sanitation and distancing norms. "We have sealed the village antine. average, 15,747 samples were started at projects with condition the state, Kerala Finance It suggested that all transport Chack Ramchand after it was A total of 35 COVID-19 tested per day and 584 of those that adequate measures are taken Minister Thomas Isaac told PTI vehicles of all sizes, whether declared Red Zone by the District patients have been admitted in the were found to be positive per for safeguard against coron- that an exit strategy is being pre- inter-State, intra-State or intra- An injured being shifted to hospital in Mendhar sector on Magistrate.