Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Srinagar, Apr 10: Luck didn’t favour a Kashmiri group that had travelled to Nigeria in South Africa and were put under mandatory quarantine in a tourist spot far from Srinagar. When their quarantine period completed, five of them tested positive and three negative.
Official sources told Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) that eight persons of Tableegi Jamaat were put under mandatory quarantine at Gulmarg. “They were lodged in an administrative quarantine center,” an official said.
He said that they had a travel history to Nigeria, where they had gone to attend a Tableegi Jamaat program in early March. “They cooperated with the administration and agreed to stay in 14- day mandatory quarantine in Gulmarg. All of them were asymptomatic and completed mandatory quarantine period.”
However, the day when they were supposed to be discharged, came their results. “Five of them were COVID-19 positive and three negative. Luck didn’t favour the five,” an official said.
After their tests came positive, the entire quarantine center staff was asked to stay in quarantine and the building was sanitized too.
Deputy Commissioner Baramullah,Dr G N Itoo said, “ Of eight people with travel history to South Africa, five have tested positive and three negative. Those who served them have now been put on mandatory quarantine and their testes will also be done,” the DC said.
He said till date the administration in the Baramulla District has tested 153 people. “ As many as 21 have tested positive so far and 133 negative,” the DC informed.
Kashmir is already on an edge as the pandemic is spreading fast. In the past 24 hours, 56 people have tested positive in Kashmir alone which signifies that the pandemic has almost taken an ugly turn. Four people, three of them in Kashmir, have already died of COVID-19 till date. (KINS)
