News Topic:COVID-19

Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) administration today expressed satisfaction over the good work done by its staff in the fight against COVID 19.

A day after 6-year-old girl tested positive for the novel coronavirus here, samples of her twin sister and their father returned positive along with twelve other persons for COVID-19 in Kashmir Valley, taking the number of the infected persons to 314 in J&K.

In a significant development, Jammu and Kashmir government is all set to receive the fresh consignment of 400 ventilators to overcome the shortfall and to meet any emergency due the COVID-19 pandemic while as global shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) continues to persist.

Two COVID-19 positive patients who were undergoing treatment at District Hospital Pulwama were discharged after they tested negative twice.

Principal, SKIMS Medical College Bemina, Prof. (Dr.) Reyaz Ahmad Untoo today said that SKIMS Medical College and Hospital Bemina which is designated as COVID-19 hospital has 150 dedicated beds for Isolation Wards along with 20 beds in high dependence unit and 04 beds in ICU.

Four COVID-19 patients including a 10-year-old boy from Srinagar were discharged from SKIMS, Srinagar after recovering from the lethal infection.

18 more patients from Kashmir division tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

Amid the lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a family in Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district has been hosting mother-son duo from Mumbai for over a month now.