News Topic:COVID-19

Doctors in Kashmir have now started believing that out of nine deaths that occurred in the Valley, only one can be directly attributed to the lethal Coronavirus infection while rest of the patients died not only of Coronavirus but of other conditions-known in medical terminology as comorbidities.

Over 360 Kashmiri students stranded in parts of Madhya Pradesh due to the lockdown will be sent back to their native places in air-conditioned buses from Bhopal on Saturday, an official said.

The Government on Friday ordered closure of all educational institutions, training institutes till May 31.

Three more villages have been declared as Red Zone by the district authorities in south Kashmir's Pulwama district after new cases of coronavirus surfaced in the district.

Thirty persons on Friday tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Kashmir Valley, taking the tally of COVID-19 patients in J&K to 823.

A government employee who was tested positive recently for COVID-19 infection tried to escape from the Chest Disease Hospital, however, he was identified on the gate and admitted in the ward again.

J&K government has said that the first flight with over 160 students from Bangladesh is set to land in Srinagar later today.

Six among the fresh positive novel coronavirus cases reported in Kashmir valley on Thursday are patients admitted to Bone and Joint Hospital Srinagar, highly reliable official sources said.