End The Lockdown
Riyaz Wani
A recent runaway surge in coronavirus cases temporarily threatened to plunge Jammu and Kashmir into the same chaos as was unfolding in Delhi through March and April. At over 5000 cases a day in April, Kashmir had cases almost equal to the number in Pakistan, a country with 21 times more population. This was a troubling state of affairs. At one point, there was a 700 per cent rise in the cases in just four weeks. And any further spike could have overrun the health facilities.
The Lal Chowk In Lockdown: Perhaps the busiest space of Kashmir, Lal Chowk is silent like a rock because of the almost month-old lockdown. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur