{"id":23257,"date":"2020-04-08T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/33-more-test-positive-jk-covid-19-cases-tally-rises-to-158\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T19:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:36:17","slug":"33-more-test-positive-jk-covid-19-cases-tally-rises-to-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23257","title":{"rendered":"33 More Test Positive, J&amp;K COVID-19 Cases Tally Rises to 158"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar, April 8 (GNS):<\/strong> Test reports of at least 33 more persons returned positive for coronavirus disease on Wednesday, taking the number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir to 158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the fresh cases include 11 from SKIMS Soura, 19 from Chest Disease hospital and three from Jammu, sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A doctor told GNS that reports of 100 samples received from JLNM hospital Rainwari, District Hospital Pulwama and GMC Anantnag were tested at CD lab and their reports were received today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c19 of them came out to be positive,\u201d the doctor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among these 19, the doctor said is cases from Chattbal, Eidgah areas of Srinagar besides Pulwama and Kulgam districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who tested positive at SKIMS are said to be residents of Srinagar (5), Baramulla (1), Bandipora (4) and Kupwara (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding four patients from Bandipora, they said have a history of contact with previous patients and are aged 16, 38, 30 and 36 years old respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five patients from Srinagar are said to have travel history to Nigeria and they are aged 33, 35, 31, 41 and 46 years old respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One patient is from Tangmarg and he is said to be around 70 years and contact of the previous COVID-19 patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other patient is said to 16-year-old from Kupwara who had returned from Nizamuddin New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these fresh cases, the number of COVID-19 patients in J&amp;K has gone up 158. Among them, 152 are active cases\u2014124 in Kashmir and 27 In Jammu. While four patients in J&amp;K\u2014one in Kashmir and 3 in Jammu\u2014have been discharged, three patients, all from Valley have died of the disease. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, April 8 (GNS): Test reports of at least 33 more persons returned positive for coronavirus disease on Wednesday, taking the number of COVID-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir to 158. Among the fresh cases include 11 from SKIMS Soura, 19 from Chest Disease hospital and three from Jammu, sources said. A doctor told GNS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}