#OVID-9 || 915 new cases, 5 deaths

50 % of medical oxygen reserved for health sector

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday recorded 915 fresh COVID-19 cases, including 156 travellers, taking the infection tally to 1,38,390, while five more fatalities pushed the death toll to 2,034.
Out of the fresh cases, 288 were reported from the Jammu division and 627 from the Kashmir division of the Union Territory.
Srinagar district recorded the highest of 362 cases, including 81 travellers, followed by 192 in Jammu and 111 in Baramulla district.
The number of active cases has now reached 7,335 in the Union Territory, while 1,29,021 patients have recovered so far.
The death toll due to the pandemic reached 2,034 as five new fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours from the Kashmir Valley.
Moreover, 330 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 57 from Jammu Division and 273 from Kashmir Division.
According to the daily Media Bulletin on novel Corona virus (Covid-19), out of 138390 positive cases, 7335 are Active Positive, 129021 have recovered and 2034 have died; 752 in Jammu division and 1282 in Kashmir division.
The Bulletin further said that out of 6502828 test results available, 6364438 samples have been tested as negative till 11thApril, 2021.
Till date 1610579 persons have been enlisted for observation which included 59037 persons in home quarantine including facilities operated by government, 7335 in isolation and 131085 in home surveillance. Besides, 1411088 persons have completed their surveillance period.
Providing district-wise breakup, the Bulletin said that Srinagar has 31911 positive cases (including 362 cases reported today) with 2709 Active Positive, 28722 recovered (including 158 cases recovered today), 480 deaths; Baramulla has 9744 positive cases (including 111 cases reported today) with 837 Active Positive, 8724 recovered (including 73 cases recovered today), 183 deaths; Budgam reported 8605 positive cases (including 27 cases reported today) with 382 active positive cases, 8100 recovered (including 19 cases recovered today), 123 deaths; Pulwama has 6109 positive cases (including 15 cases reported today) with 175 Active Positive, 5842 recovered and 92 deaths; Kupwara has 6011 positive cases (including 38 cases reported today), 190 Active Positive, 5723 recoveries (including 15 cases recovered today), 98 deaths; Anantnag district has 5385 positive cases (including 25 cases reported today) with 197 Active Positive, 5090 recovered (including 08 cases recovered today), 98 deaths; Bandipora has 4887 positive cases (including 12 cases reported today), with 127 Active Positive, 4697 recoveries and 63 deaths; Ganderbal has 4798 positive cases (including 08 cases reported today) with 80 Active Positive, 4669 recoveries and 49 deaths; Kulgam has 3021 positive cases (including 15 cases reported today) with 235 Active Positive, 2730 recoveries and 56 deaths while as Shopian has 2716 positive cases (including 14 cases reported today), 71 active positive cases, 2605 recoveries and 40 deaths.
Similarly, Jammu has 27217 positive cases (including 192 cases reported today) with 1430 active positive cases, 25396 recoveries (including 30 cases recovered today), 391 deaths; Udhampur has 4591 positive cases (including 03 cases reported today), 225 active positive cases, 4308 recoveries and 58 deaths; Rajouri has 3952 positive cases (including 04 cases reported today) with 62 active positive, 3834 recoveries (including 01 cases recovered today) and 56 deaths; Doda has 3501 positive cases (including 08 cases reported today) with 45 Active positive, 3392 recovered and 64 deaths; Kathua has 3506 positive cases (including 11 cases reported today), 113 active positive cases, 3340 recovered (including 11 cases recovered today) and 53 deaths; Kishtwar has 2787 positive cases with 31 Active Positive, 2734 recoveries and 22 deaths; Samba has 2939 positive cases (including 11 cases reported today) with 78 active positive cases, 2818 recoveries and 43 deaths; Poonch has 2583 positive cases (including 08 cases reported today) with 43 active positive, 2514 recoveries) and 26 deaths; Ramban has 2178 positive cases (including 03 cases reported today) with 16 active positive cases, 2139 recoveries and 23 deaths while as Reasi has 1949 positive (including 48 cases reported today) with 289 active positive cases, 1644 recoveries and 16 deaths.
According to the bulletin, among the total 138390 positive cases in J&K, 14817 have been reported as travelers while 123573 as others.
The Bulletin said that the breakup represents districts from which the patients have been traced or are ordinarily residing.
The bulletin added that there are 1109 COVID dedicated beds, 972 Isolation beds with 845 vacant beds and 137 ICU beds where 90 beds are vacant in Jammu division while there are 1630 COVID dedicated beds, 1534 Isolation beds where 1284 beds are vacant and 96 ICU beds where 75 are vacant beds in Kashmir division. There are a total of 2739 COVID dedicated beds, 2506 Isolation beds with 2129 beds vacant and 233 ICU beds with 165 vacant beds in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer today directed that all private Medical Oxygen suppliers shall immediately reserve 50 percent of their capacity to cater to the demand of Government Institutions.
In this regard, the Divisional Commissioner also constituted a committee headed by Director Industries & Commerce and consisting of Controller Legal Metrology Jammu, Controller Stores Directorate Health services, Assistant Controller Drugs.
The committee shall on the weekly basis review the production of 08 private medical oxygen supply firms operating in Industrial Estates of Jammu/Samba/Kathua/Udhampur and furnish the reports to the Health and Medical Education Department and office of the Divisional Commissioner.
They will also tally the figure of the demand received from various Government health care facilities and the supplies made to the Government facilities by the private vendors including time delay, if any and reasons thereof.
The committee will submit weekly status report to the Health and Medical Education Department & office of the Divisional Commissioner.
The said committee shall also constitute field teams which will randomly visit and check the medical oxygen supply agencies and check for instances of any underweight cylinders, violation of legal metrology norms and diversion of cylinder to the private entities within the quota fixed for the Government Health care facilities.
The Divisional Commissioner has directed the concerned District Magistrates to periodically review the same in view of the ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases and in case any shortage of medical oxygen supply is reported, action under the provisions of Disaster Management Act and Legal Metrology rules shall be taken.