News Topic:COVID-19

All education institutions and training institutes in Jammu and Kashmir shall remain closed till May 03, the government ordered on Friday.

With reports that recovered coronavirus patients are getting reinfected, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday urged health authorities in Kashmir valley to test recovered patients for anti-bodies that would help to know whether they are immune for reinfection.

In view of the extension of the lockdown upto May 03 and a spike in novel coronavirus cases, the J&K government on Friday deferred “formal” reopening of Darbar move offices in Srinagar till mid-June.

Government of Jammu and Kashmir has issued instructions to the concerned departments for regulating and facilitating the construction activities to be carried out during the lockdown period while following the norms of social distancing.

A COVID-19 patient died at JVC SKIMS Bemina here in Srinagar on Friday afternoon, taking the toll of patients who died of COVID-19 to five in Jammu and Kashmir.

Authorities suspended a pharmacist in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district for refusing to serve food to COVID-19 patients.

As protection kits including masks vanish from the markets in the wake of growing demand, a self-help group in Pampore area of southern Pulwama district is making masks and distributing them in general public besides health department.

The medical experts in Jammu and Kashmir have advised people not to rush to barber shops and beauty parlours as they can be silent carriers of COVID-19 pandemic.