News Topic:COVID-19

After receiving reports that Parimpora Fruit Mandi has become a nuisance amid COVID-19 threat where people don’t maintain social distancing, authorities have decided to close the Mandi except from 8 to 12 pm every day.

Twenty people, who were hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, were discharged from JLNM Rainawari Hospital after testing negative for the infection today.

Tasked to ensure the enforcement of lockdown in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the district's Sahibabad Police were on Wednesday surprised when a mother came to the police station complaining that she had sent her son to buy groceries but he returned with his wife.

College sessions will begin in August for current students and September for new ones, the University Grants Commission (UGC) said on Wednesday.

Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K. Pole Wednesday said the Cement factories operating in Kashmir can function normally.

These precautionary measures were taken as two persons from Rahmoo and Reshipora villages were detected positive for COVID-19.

Amid lockdown and surfacing of a positive case having travel movement and two days stay in a CA store in IGC Lassipora, people of the district are apprehensive and frightened of Industrial Growth Centre turning into an epicentre of Coronavirus infection.

Sixteen more people have tested positive of the novel coronavirus in Kashmir, taking the number of COVID-19 patients in J&K to 581.