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Srinagar: A 65-year-old cancer patient from Nowgam area of Srinagar city along with her four attendants are stranded in Chandigarh since last 15 days amid the covid-19 lockdown. The family has now demanded immediate evacuation for the “safety of their patient who is suffering from a fatal disease.”

According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Manzoor Ahmad, brother of cancer patient said that on February 26 that the patient was admitted at PGI Chandigarh and on March 19. “The patient was operated for 12 hours,” Ahmed said. “On March 30, she was discharged and since then we are stranded here. But nobody is helping us even after repeated requests to government of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory.”

He said that as the condition of their patient is worsening day by day and she is not getting the care which a cancer patient needs, “we demand immediate evacuation to Srinagar.”

“We request government of Jammu and Kashmir especially Lt Governor G C Murmu to kindly intervene and evacuate us from here,” Ahmed told KNO, adding that “we don’t need money or anything but demand permission so that we can reach to home.”

He said that they are ready to cooperate with administration and go for quarantine but want to take patient to home first. “We are even ready to pay fare as well if government will make arrangement of vehicle for us,” Ahmed said and hoped that Srinagar administration would pay heed to their demands at the earliest—(KNO)

Srinagar: Doctors on Monday took samples for novel coronavirus of a deaf and dumb beggar whose body was recovered near Chest Disease Hospital, one among the health facilities presently used exclusively for the Covid-19 management.

Sources told GNS that samples were taken to see if the person might have contracted the dreaded disease. “The man was always encircled by dogs as he would feed them also. Since cases of coronavirus transmission to animals cannot be ruled out, the samples were taken to confirm if he has died of the virus and incase it turns to be so, the dogs in the area may be culled to prevent the spread of the disease,” they said. Meanwhile, the doctors also advised police to take all precautions while handling the body which is now kept in a mortuary at PCR Srinagar.

While the main driver of transmission of COVID-19 is through droplets, the guidelines underline that there is unlikely to be an increased risk of the infection from a dead body to health workers or family members. However, those handling the body are required to follow standard precautions (surgical mask, gloves).

Religious rituals such as reading from religious scripts and any other last rites that do not require touching of the body can be allowed but bathing, kissing, hugging, etc. of the body has been advised to be strictly avoided. The funeral or burial staff and family members are also required to perform hand hygiene after burial or cremation.

Meanwhile, police has sought information regarding the deaf and dumb whose body was recovered at Malteng Dalgate.

“He was begging in the area since last 15 years. Age about 40-45 years, Complexion – black (beard on face) & height 5 feet 5 inch. The dead body was sent for the autopsy to PCR and legal formalities have been initiated,” a police spokesman said, adding, “If anybody has any information regarding the identity of the dead body may kindly inform Police Station R.M.Bagh Srinagar on 9596770853 or PCR Srinagar on 9596222550, 9596222551, or Police Control Room Kashmir on ” Dial 100″.” (GNS)

Ram Asre Mishra, President, FRAI, said petty retailers and their families are now facing certain poverty and survival challenges

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Federation of Retailer Association of India (FRAI), a representative body of about 4 crore micro, small and medium retailers selling soft drinks, mineral water, biscuits, cigarette and paan, bidi from across India, has appealed to the Prime Minister to allow their members to open their shops. It has also sought financial relief from the government.

Ram Asre Mishra, President, FRAI, said “We would humbly like to appeal to the Prime Minister to kindly empathise with the hardships being faced by our poor and helpless individual members and allow them to open their shops immediately.”

“We also appeal to the Prime Minister to immediately announce an economic package to compensate the losses of the petty retailers in their daily income under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana announced by the Government,” he said.

“While big grocery shops selling essential commodities are allowed to operate during the lockdown, why should our small shopkeeper brothers, who also sell similar goods of daily public needs, be deprived of earning their livelihood,” Mr Mishra asked.

He said these individuals and their families are now facing certain poverty and survival challenges.

“All the capital of these poor retailer is tied up in the stocks of essential products which are remaining unsold in their shops because of the lockdown, they are now having to dip into small savings to survive in order to purchase food to support their family members,” he said.

“Most of our individual members have now depleted their entire savings and are on the verge of starvation,” he added.

FRAI members sustain their livelihood by selling goods of daily needs like biscuits, soft drinks, mineral water, cigarettes, bidi and paan in the neighbourhood.

The profit of these micro retailers in selling these products is about ₹15,000 per month.

“The closure of such shops during the current lockdown on account of Coronavirus has completely stopped the daily inflow of the petty retailers’ income,” FRAI said.

Srinagar, April 13: Militants on Tuesday fired upon a joint party of police and CRPF at Naka in Malangpora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

A senior Police officer told GNS that militants attacked joint party at Malangpora area of Awantipora, the joint party retaliated, triggering off a brief exchange of gunfight.

Till this report was being filed no loss of life or injury was being reported.(GNS)

Kashmiris go mutton crazy, Mutton dealers say supply unavailable, ‘Ask Govt to clear the air on unavailability of mutton’

Srinagar: People across Kashmir are fighting the battle against Covid-19 like other matured region across the globe, but one that continues to irritate them is shortage of mutton.

While fight against the pandemic is on, mutton crazy people are running from pillar to post to find mutton.
Over the past few weeks, Kashmir is facing severe shortage of mutton due to the lack of supply that used to come from Punjab, Haryana and New Delhi.
“All mandis are closed due to the pandemic and we haven’t received sufficient stock of sheep or goats since past three weeks,” said Abdur Rehman Regoo, a mutton dealer in Pampore area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

He said whatever sheep he had in stock were sold and his shed where he used to store sheep, is empty.
Same is the case in Srinagar, the summer capital city, where mutton dealers are facing serious shortage of stock that includes sheep and goat.
The dealers say that no supply reaches them and whatever they had in stock has been sold out. “People knock our doors early morning asking for mutton. We have only one reply for them “there is no supply,” General Secretary Wholesale Mutton Dealers Association Mehraj-ud- Din told Kashmir indepth News Service (KINS).

He said that dozens of mutton dealers and meat sellers are facing huge losses. “We were yet to recover the losses inflicted on us by long shutdown due to roll back of Article 370. Now the pandemic has come again as our biggest enemy,” he maintained.

Director Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution (CA&PD) Bashir Ahmad said that pandemic has choked the supplies. “If things improve, supplies will reach Kashmir,” he told KINS.

Kashmiri people are known voracious mutton eaters and there is not even a single house, that didn’t cook mutton dish at least once a week.

Many people however questioned that if poultry supply is reaching Kashmir, why is there mutton shortage.

The mutton dealers have, however, urged the government to direct the Animal and Sheep Husbandry department to activate local supplies for the mutton dealers. “We have number of Sheep farms across Kashmir, and if we get the supplies from them, we can overcome the shortage,” Mehraj Din said.

He, however, said that recently many mutton shops were sealed, which indicates that government doesn’t want mutton to be sold.

“We also urge the government to clear the air, whether it doesn’t want meat to be sold in Covid-19 crises. If it is so, we should be informed,” he said. (KINS)

2 minor sisters discharged from JLNM

Srinagar: 25 more people including 12 non-locals tested for the novel coronavirus in the Kashmir on Monday while two minor Covid-19 sisters were discharged from JLNM hospital here.

They said twelve of the positive cases were confirmed from SKIMS lab and included nine from Bandipora and three from Baramulla. The other thirteen cases were confirmed at CD hospital lab and include 12 non-local residents from New Delhi, Gujarat and Kerela. The other is a resident of Kulgam.

Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Shahid Iqbal Choudhary told GNS that 12 among the 13 who tested positive were already put under quarantine.

“They are religious preachers from Delhi, Gujarat and Kerala and were already under quarantine,” DC said.

With these cases, the officially confirmed tally stands at 270

49 in Jammu and 222 in Kashmir. Four people have died due to the deadly infection in the J&K while eight others — three each in Jammu and five from Kashmir divisions including two minor sisters from Natipora Srinagar have recovered and have been discharged, leaving the active cases in Kashmir to 213 and 45 in Jammu.

Meanwhile, the first two COVID-19 positive children were discharged from JLNM Hospital Rainawari here.
The sisters, 7 year old and three and a half year old were discharged along with their mother who was COVID-19 negative but was staying with her daughters. “The repeat samples of both the children and of the mother came NEGATIVE for COVID-19 today,” officials said.

Principal Secretary Information and government spokesman termed it as a “Great News. Mubarak to the families and gratitude to the entire medical team,” he tweeted.

The children from Natipora had come in contact with their grandfather who had arrived from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah and tested positive for Covid-19.

The man had shared the same flight as that of the Kashmir’s first Covid-19 patient – a 67-year-old woman from Srinagar’s Khanyar area – who was discharged from SKIMS Soura. (GNS)

Total confirmed cases jump to 270 in J&K

Bandipora: A four year old girl and her mother were tested positive for Coronavirus today in North Kashmir’s Banipora district. Nine confirmed cases were reported from the district today, taking the total number of positive cases to 52.

Chief Medical Officer Bandipora, Dr Tajamul told KNT that they wanted the mother to go to home but her latest test was found positive along with her four year old girl.

He said 9 patients who were tested positive today are all contacts of the deceased Covid-19 man from Gund Jahangir Bandipora.

“After the death of Covid-19 patient at Gund Jahangir, we had quarantined 14 relatives of that man and among those 9 were tested positive today. The sad part of the story is that 4 year old girl has also been tested positive. We are shifting them to isolation wards,” CMO Bandipora said.

Meanwhile, 25 new cases including 12 non-locals of Covid-19 were reported in Jammu and Kashmir today and they all are from Kashmir, though 12 have of them are non-locals.

There are total 270 confirmed cases in Jammu and Kashmir. For the third consecutive day, Srinagar witnessed no Covid-19 case on Monday. (KNT)

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