{"id":30219,"date":"2020-07-22T17:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30219"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:53:55","slug":"six-day-lockdown-in-kashmir-valley-to-stem-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30219","title":{"rendered":"Six-day lockdown in Kashmir Valley to stem COVID-19 spread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The decision comes into effect on Wednesday evening.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>As Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s COVID-19 cases crossed the 15,000 mark, the J&amp;K administration on Wednesday decided to re-impose a strict lockdown across Kashmir up to July 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/e6qywk\/article32160896.ece\/alternates\/FREE_435\/STRICKLOCKDOWN\" alt=\"A man crosses a barricade during lockdown reimposed in Srinagar on July 13, 2020.\" title=\"A man crosses a barricade during lockdown reimposed in Srinagar on July 13, 2020.\"\/><figcaption><em>A man crosses a barricade during lockdown reimposed in Srinagar on July 13, 2020. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A government spokesperson announced \u201ca complete lockdown in all red districts, excluding Bandipora, of the Kashmir division from today [Wednesday] evening till 6 a.m. of July 27.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that activities related to agriculture, horticulture and construction will continue in accordance with the DMRR guidelines. \u201cThe movement of goods carriers, LPG and oil tankers [are] to continue unhindered,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The lockdown comes a day after 608 new positive cases of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus were reported \u2014 106 from the Jammu division and 502 from the Kashmir division \u2014 taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 15,258.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOut of 15,258 positive cases, 6,540 are active positive cases and 8,455 have recovered,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>At least 263 people have died due to COVID-19 in J&amp;K so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s summer capital Srinagar has the highest number of positive cases at 3,283, of which 1,961 are active positive. At 69 deaths, Srinagar has also recorded the highest number of deaths in J&amp;K so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/six-day-lockdown-in-kashmir-valley-to-stem-covid-19-spread\/article32160897.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision comes into effect on Wednesday evening. As Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s COVID-19 cases crossed the 15,000 mark, the J&amp;K administration on Wednesday decided to re-impose a strict lockdown across Kashmir up to July 28. A government spokesperson announced \u201ca complete lockdown in all red districts, excluding Bandipora, of the Kashmir division from today [Wednesday] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30219","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\/30219","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=30219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219\/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=30219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}