May 24, 2021
The Deputy Commissioner also visited the Vaccination and Sampling site at RS Pura school to take stock of the daily progress.
The Deputy Commissioner also convened a meeting to review the house to house mopping exercise and sensitized the officials/workers to work with utmost zeal and dedication for achieving the desired results.
While reviewing the management of Covid cases, Anshul Garg gave on the spot instructions to deploy a dedicated team of doctors and para medical staff besides station round the clock ambulance service at quarantine centers to provide quick and better facilities to the patients.
The Deputy Commissioner also visited PHC Bishnah which is a dedicated Covid hospital and reviewed the level of preparedness to deal with the surge in Covid-19 cases.
Door-to-door COVID tracing exercise starts in Jammu: DM Anshul Garg
JAMMU: A massive door-to-door exercise was started across Jammu on Tuesday to ‘trace and isolate’ probable COVID-19 positive patients as part of the ongoing efforts to contain the pandemic, officials said.
Jammu district tops the COVID fatality chart with a total of 686 deaths till Monday evening with over 300 of the patients succumbing to the infection in the past three weeks. The district has 7,630 active cases, which is also the second highest in the entire Jammu and Kashmir.
Seeking cooperation of the people to the drive, Deputy Commissioner Jammu Anshul Garg said it is an attempt to reach out to each of the 4.5 lakh households in the district in the next four days to trace and isolate probable positive patients, promote COVID-19 SoPs and lend a helping hand.
JU VCâs kin, Sarpanch, two ex-servicemen among 41 more die of COVID in Jammu
Ex-Minister, former VC with 3 of family including Sr. doc test +ve
3 family members of IAS officer too report positive
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 11: Jammu and Kashmir today recorded single-day highest 65 COVID casualties and 4352 fresh cases. As usual, Jammu region continued to account for maximum deaths in the Union Territory reporting 41 fatalities and 1708 positive cases.
Among 41 COVID fatalities, 14 were women while seven persons were aged between 30-45 years. Nearly 60 percent deaths were purely related to Coronavirus as the victims had no co-morbidities. The highest 28 casualties took place in Jammu district, six Udhampur, three each Samba and Kathua and one in Rajouri.
1496 test positive, 1070 recover
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 10: Surge continued in COVID deaths in the Union Territory especially in Jammu region which accounted for 39 casualties today in a total of 56 while 3614 persons tested positive, 1496 of them in Jammu.
Out of 39 Corona casualties in Jammu region, 31 were reported in Jammu district, two each Udhampur, Kathua and Rajouri and one each in Samba and Reasi districts. Seventeen of the dead were women. Four persons succumbed to the virus at home and were later shifted to hospital.
A 93-year-old man from Anand Nagar Talab Tillo, 70-year-old from Rajpura Mangotrian, 62-year-old from Subash Nagar and 46-year-old from Canal Road, all in Jammu district, died of Coronavirus at home.
Insp, 2 SIs among 25 cops of two PSs infected
Cardiac surgeon, Anesthesia Prof in GMC test +ve
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 8: Jammu and Kashmir today recorded single-day highest 60 Corona deaths and 4788 fresh cases. Jammu region accounted for 42 fatalities in a day and 1529 cases.
Among the dead were senior KAS officer and Special Secretary Finance Dr Shamim Ahmad Wani (who tested negative for the virus just two days before his death after remaining positive for over a fortnight), brother of former Minister, who too had died of pathogen, a 17-year-old girl from Mirpur Kathua and a 26-year-old youth of Rehari. Third woman member of a family from Jhangar Nowshera in Rajouri district succumbed to the virus during last two days.