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  • COVID-19: Kashmir’s young workers stuck in Haryana, without food and money

    Srinagar, Mar 26 (KNO): At least a dozen workers from northern belt of Kashmir are stuck in Haryana without food and money after authorities announced lockdown in wake of increasing threat due to Coronavirus after a contractor they worked for reduced to pay outstanding dues.

    According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), a group of part time workers (Caterers) are stuck in Haryana without food and money due to lockdown after the contractor they worked for refused to pay outstanding dues.

    The aggrieved group of youth said that they are stuck here in absence of food and money for over a week now. “We are 12 persons and have been living on a two packets of maggi only for the past three days. Now, now we have started to boil some water and consume that since we have no money with us now to buy ourselves food,” they told KNO over phone.

    They said that they belong to the district Kupwara and have been working outside Kashmir. “We move out of J&K to work as caterers. The contractor for whom we were working has ditched us and left us midway,” they said. “He (Contractor) refused to pay us after the scare of novel Corona-virus mounted. Medical teams conducted our tests but all of us tested negative for the virus but none is listening to our pleas.”

    Showing their resentment over the local police of Haryana, they said they approached a local police station Rishi Nagar (In Haryana) with a complaint against the contractor but all the requests made fell on deaf ears.

    The aggrieved group of workers said that they urge the central government and the authorities in union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to provide us necessary help and take them out from Haryana towards their destinations before they catch the deadly Corona-virus —(KNO)

  • 2G services to continue in JK till Apr 03: Govt

    Srinagar, Mar 26: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday decided to continue with the restrictions imposed on high speed mobile data services across the Union Territory till April 03.

    According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Principal Secretary to government, Shaleen Kabra issued an order vide order number Home 21-(TSTS) of 2020, dated 26-03-2020.

    “After taking note of the overall situation in the UT of J&K and the latest reports of the law enforcement agency, particularly with regard to speed related restrictions on Mobile data services, the internet speed shall be restricted to 2G only upto April-03,” the order reads.

    “The post-paid sim card holders shall be provided with access to the internet. However, such access shall not be made available on pre-paid sim cards unless verified as per norms applicable for post-paid connections,” it added – (KNO)

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  • Punishment : JKP make curfew violators do Sit-Ups

    This is no workout. They are doing sit-ups as punishment for violating prohibitory orders in Srinagar.

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  • SpiceJet’s special flight from Delhi to take 142 Iran-returned Indians to quarantine facility in Jodhpur

    SpiceJet’s special flight from Delhi to taThe aircraft used, will be thoroughly cleaned and fumigated upon its return to Delhi, and the airline said it will follow all the protocols for its crew members

    The Hindu

    SpiceJet on Thursday said it will operate a special flight from Delhi to Jodhpur on Friday to ferry 142 Indians evacuated from Iran to a government quarantine facility there.

    The airline, in a press statement said, it will deploy its Boeing 737 aircraft for the service, which is being operated on the request of the government. The passengers will be reaching New Delhi on a Mahan Air flight.

    The SpiceJet flight will take off from New Delhi at 1.40 a.m. and land in Jodhpur at 2.55 a.m. on Friday.

    The Indian Army has set up one of its quarantine facilities in Jodhpur for Indians returning from abroad.

    “The aircraft will be thoroughly cleaned and fumigated upon its return to Delhi and SpiceJet will follow all the protocols for its crew members,” the airline said.

    This is the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 that the government has pressed a private carrier into service for medical evacuation. All previous flights have been carried out by the national carrier, Air India. Several airlines, including IndiGo and GoAir, have offered the government their services to evacuate passengers as well as for transporting medical supplies and equipment.

    (This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

  • Don’t worry over safety of Kashmir staying outside: Div Com

    KINS Desk

    Srinagar, March 26 (KINS): Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Pandurang Kondbarao Pole has appealed people not to worry over the safety of Kashmiris who are stranded abroad or in any state across the country.

    He also said strict action would be taken against those who are hiding travel history.

    “People should not worry over safety of Kashmiris. Authorities in New Delhi are dealing with issues like those who are stranded abroad. I will also seek information about Kashmiris who are stranded abroad or in any state across the country,” Pandurang told Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS).

    He said authorities will take action against those who are hiding their travel history.

    Authorities have identified around 500 people who have travel history, are hiding in Kashmir to escape screening and quarantine.

    “Some 1,800 persons returning from abroad have been quarantined in 90 facilities set up so far; over 150 persons hiding travel histories traced and were put under quarantine in the past one week,” DC Srinagar Shahid Chowdhary has Choudhary.(KINS)

  • More men are dying than women due to the Coronavirus: DAK

    Srinagar Mar 26: Following the death of an elderly male in Kashmir valley due to the novel (new) coronavirus, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Thursday said the novel virus is killing more men than women.
    “More men are dying than women due to the virus,” said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.
    “This is what evidence shows in countries with heavy death tolls,” he said.
    “According to a report by Higher Health Institute of Rome, based on analysis of 25,0258 cases in Italy, men accounted for nearly 60 percent of the cases and more than 70 percent of deaths,” Dr Nisar said.
    “In Spain, the number of men who died from the virus was nearly double that of the number of women, according to another report from the Carlos III Health institute,” he added.
    Dr Nisar said these figures are in line with early accounts from China, where the death rate for men was 2.8 percent compared to 1.7 percent for women, according to the largest analysis of cases by the China’s Centre for Disease control and Prevention.
    He said the gender disparity in illness and death could be biological or behavioral.
    “Women have more robust immune system than men and are able to fend off infection. The female sex hormone appears to play a role in immunity, as does X chromosome, which contains immune-related genes. Women carry 2 X chromosomes, men only one.
    Men smoke at higher rates than women that damages the lung defense and increases the risk of severe infection.
    Males are more prone to develop heart disease, hypertension and diabetes than females, leaving them at a higher risk of developing severe complications from the virus,” Dr Nisar said.
    “Being male is as much a risk factor for coronavirus as being old. People need to be aware that there is this pattern,” he said.
    “Kashmir valley reported its first coronavirus death today. He was 65 years old male, a smoker with underlying diabetes and hypertension. Of the eight laboratory confirmed cases of the virus in the valley so far, 7 are males and one is a female,” said Dr Nisar.

  • Coronavirus: Two siblings tested positive in Srinagar, toll 11 in JK

    Minor siblings are grandchildren of Srinagar lady who was tested positive earlier

    Srinagar, Mar 26 (KNO): Two minors were tested positive in Srinagar for deadly Coronavirus, taking the total toll to 11 with one death in the Valley, officials said on Thursday.

    According to wire service—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Jammu and Kashmir government spokesman, Rohit Kansal informed through a tweet that two minors,  both grandchildren of Srinagar positive case who was tested positive, have been tested positive today.

    Kansal said that two siblings including  including seven-year-old and eight-months-old have been tested positive today. Both are  the grand children of Srinagar positive case who had arrived Kashmir from Saudi Arabia and was tested positive earlier.

  • DAK COVID-19 Helpline : Mobile App

    DAK has come up with DAK COVID-19 Helpline Mobile Android based mobile Application, named as DAK-Helpdesk, wherefrom patients with minor ailments may take online consultations through Calls or WhatsApp


    Dr Masood Hassan
    Media and Publicity Secretary

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  • About 35 companies and academic institutions are racing to create a vaccine for Coronavirus

    Even at their most effective – and draconian – containment strategies have only slowed the spread of the respiratory disease Covid-19.

    With the World Health Organization finally declaring a pandemic, all eyes have turned to the prospect of a vaccine, because only a vaccine can prevent people from getting sick.

    About 35 companies and academic institutions are racing to create such a vaccine, at least four of which already have candidates they have been testing in animals. The first of these – produced by Boston-based biotech firm Moderna – will enter human trials imminently.

    This unprecedented speed is thanks in large part to early Chinese efforts to sequence the genetic material of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. China shared that sequence in early January, allowing research groups around the world to grow the live virus and study how it invades human cells and makes people sick.

    – Guardian