{"id":23725,"date":"2020-04-14T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=23725"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:28:42","slug":"26-positive-cases-and-counting-bandipora-hamlet-presents-a-ghost-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23725","title":{"rendered":"26 positive cases and counting: Bandipora hamlet presents a ghost look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bandipora<\/strong>: Covid-19 crisis has shaken the people of Gund Jahangir area of North Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district. A hamlet with population of 3,301 as per 2011 Census is presenting a ghost look with everyone staying indoors. \u201cStepping out is to invite virus to your house. There is so much fear among people,\u201d said Sajad Ahmed, a student to Kashmir News Trust.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 435 households in the hamlet which has witnessed 26 Covid-19 confirmed cases and a death.<\/p>\n<p>There are kids, females, young and old who are infected with Covid-19 infection in the village.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the deceased Covid-19 patient from the Gund Jahangeer hamlet had no travel history. Locals believe that the infection spread among people from its neighbouring Naidkhai village where 3 positive cases have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Naidkhai reported its first Covid-19 case, Gundjahangeer was free of Coronavirus. Three persons, affiliated with Tableegi Jamat were the first three cases reported from Naidkhai. All the three persons had come into contact with first deceased Covid-19 patient hailing from Sopore.<\/p>\n<p>A medico told KNT that dozens of reports are still awaited and all these samples have been collected in Gundjahangeer. \u201cSome more positive cases may surface in the hamlet as a large number of people are already in quarantine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>North Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district with a total population of over 4 lakh people have witnessed over 50 Covid-19 positive cases.<\/p>\n<p>Locals from Gundjahangeer demand mass testing so that they could come out from the present trauma. \u201cAt least through testing it will become clear who are free of infection and who need care,\u201d they said. (KNT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandipora: Covid-19 crisis has shaken the people of Gund Jahangir area of North Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district. A hamlet with population of 3,301 as per 2011 Census is presenting a ghost look with everyone staying indoors. \u201cStepping out is to invite virus to your house. There is so much fear among people,\u201d said Sajad Ahmed, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23725","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\/23725","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=23725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725\/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=23725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}