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Srinagar, March 25: Mutahida Majlis Ulema has made a fervent appeal to people in Kashmir who have a travel history in recent past , to voluntarily report to the concerned quarters.

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Srinagar, Mar 25 (KNS): Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Chowdhary on Wednesday appealed people to stay indoors and report to designated screening centers in case of COVID-19 symptoms.

According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), DC Srinagar tweeted, “Doctors suggest actual cases in community could probably be more than those tested positive. For heaven’s sake stay at homes and report to designated hospitals if you have symptoms/ travel history. Consult on phone before visiting Hospital. Please. Spread the word. #BreakTheChain”.

(KNS)

Srinagar, March 25 (KINS): Two doctors of SMHS Hospital Srinagar who had seen a coronavirus patient have been quarantined.

One of the persons tested positive is from Hyderpora Srinagar who had returned from New Delhi recently after being part of a ‘Tablighi Jamaat’ attended by people from Indonesia and Malaysia.

He had visited JVC SKIMS Bemina on March 21 and then went home. On March 22, he visited SMHS Hospital Srinagar where from he was referred to CD Hospital Srinagar and was tested positive on Tuesday.

One of the doctors who has been quarantined said, “The diagnosed case of COVID 19 was seen by me in SMHS Hospital causality, it is so sad that they lied about history of complete travel and charged on me and my junior when I sent them to CD hospital for testing. I was even asked by a notable senior to send him home. Thank God I did not.”

In his social media post he wrote, “I have fever and sore throat. I don’t even care of I have contacted it or not, I put my trust in Allah and believe that we are foot-soldiers in this battle. But I would not want someone’s arrogance and lying cost me my parents and friends. Please don’t lie and be arrogant.”

Sources said he and another of his colleague have been quarantined that they might have been infected.
“They are under observation. Authorities have failed to provide protection equipment including masks, gloves, hand sanitizers and gowns to doctors and other medical staff. We are at the risk of catching the infection. We are vulnerable to attract infections while treating patients,” a doctor at SMHS Hospital Srinagar said told Kashmir Indepth News Service.

Dr Samia Rashid, Principal Government Medical College Srinagar however said, “We provide protective gear to doctors and other staff whatever is available with us. Even after someone can get infected, what can we do,” she said.

(KINS)

Srinagar, March 25: The 4g internet services would be restored this week in J&K after the state government made a formal request to Home Ministry for its restoration.
A top official in Home Ministry who wished not to be named informed KNS that LG administration has formally written to Home Ministry regarding the restoration of 4g internet services.

Sources in the administration said Lt Governor G C Murmu along with Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary School Education are keen to start e-classes at earliest so that the students do not suffer.

“It was after this understanding that state government wrote to Home Ministry regarding the restoration of 4g internet services,” an official said.
Earlier political leaders, students and their parents, political leaders in unison has sought 4G internet services in the region to allow educational institutes offer e-learning to students amid a seven-month-long lockdown – earlier following the abrogation of Article 370 in August, and now because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The chorus for the restoration of high-speed 4G internet services on mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir has grown in the wake of the detection of the increased number of cases every day in the valley.

A health official told KNS that doctors across Kashmir are also unable to download the quarantine protocol and treatment procedures due to slow internet speed.

The students and their parents, political leaders in unison has sought 4G internet services in the region to allow educational institutes to offer e-learning to students amid a seven-month-long lockdown – earlier following the abrogation of Article 370 in August, and now because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

All the political leaders from all the parties have appealed the state government to restore 4g internet services.

An educationist said online classes through apps and software like Zoom and Google Classroom is the only option for the students to access study material till schools open and added that high-speed internet facility will help students to learn remotely amid this uncertainty. (KNS)

They had participated in a religious event together with a person from Sgr who tested positive yesterday, Toll 8 in Kashmir

Srinagar, March 25 (KNO): A day after three persons including a religious preacher of Tableegi Jamaat was tested positive for Covid-19, the J&K government on Wednesday said that four more persons have been tested positive and all of them are from Bandipora district.

In his tweet, J&K Government’s spokesman Rohit Kansal said that four more persons, all from Bandipora, tested positive today. “Preliminary findings suggest that they were in close contact of Srinagar patient who tested positive yesterday.

All five reported to have participated together in a religious event,” Kansal tweet.

With the four more fresh cases, the total positive cases in Kashmir, as per wire service — Kashmir News Observer (KNO) has reached to eight

— (KNO)

Srinagar, Mar 25, KNT: Omar Abdullah, the former chief minister who was released after eight months on March 24, has finally started offering his own experience about how the people should manage their lives in the quarantine.

He has written a series of tweets and these getting viral on social media.

In the first tweet, he said the response to his earlier tweet has encouraged him to share “a bit of my own experience”.

“It will probably sound rather self-evident but it really helped me over the months of solitary detention,” he wrote.

Omar wants people to establish a routine and try to stick to it, while in quarantine. “In all the months I was in HNSJ (Hari Niwas Sub-Jail) I stuck to a routine as though it were carved in stone. The routine gave me a sense of purpose & stopped me feeling aimless or lost,” the tweets read.

“I woke up & went to bed around the same time EVERY DAY. No lazy Sunday morning lie-ins for me. Get up & get ready. Having nowhere to go is no reason to spend all day in your nightsuit. I lived in track pants but I never slept in them or sat around in my PJs,” he wrote in another tweet.

“Fix your meal times & stick to them. I ate my meals on my own. Put it down to the habit of boarding school & my need for structure For me it was breakfast at 8:30, lunch at 2 & dinner at 7:30 with a mug of coffee at 12 (after the doctor had checked my BP) & evening tea at 6,” was the routine of Omar in the sub-jail for all these months.
Omar said the exercise is the only thing that is very important.

He wrote in his tweet: “Exercise, exercise, exercise. I can’t emphasise this point enough. I was fortunate to have space & access to the grounds in HNSJ to get outside but even when the weather didn’t permit I exercised indoors – walking in the corridor, up & down the stairs or just endless burpees.”

For the exercise, he had some help available with him. He wrote: “I used a couple of apps which were really helpful because I had workouts downloaded on them earlier. Nike Training Club & Fitbod (both on iOS & probably Android as well) were great for workouts of varying intensity & equipment levels.”