JK witnesses worst ever spike of 1,698 cases in 24 hours, tally reaches 52,410

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported the worst ever single day spike of 1,698 cases of COVID pandemic including 135 travellers taking the total number of positive cases to 52,410 in JK.

Today’s spike is the highest ever since the outbreak of pandemic in March this year. Of the total 52,410 cases, 35,897 are from Kashmir and 16,513 from Jammu division.

Officials said that among 1,698 new cases, 860 belong to Kashmir division while as 838 are from Jammu division, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division have reached to 35,897 including 27,492 recoveries while as total number of positive cases in Jammu division have reached to 16,513 including 7,793 recoveries and 143 deaths.

The officials said that total number of active cases in Jammu and Kashmir are 16,261 including 7,684 from Kashmir division and 8,577 from Jammu division.

With 596 more recoveries, the tally of total recoveries in JK has reached to 35,285 which is 67.32 percent of the total cases which was over 78 percent few day before.

“Cases tested positive in JK include 255 from Srinagar, 123 from Budgam, 82 from Baramulla, 50 from Pulwama, 45 from Anantnag, 108 from Kupwara, 82 from Bandipora, 10 from Kulgam, 45 from Ganderbal  and 69 from Shopian in Kashmir division while as 838 from Jammu division include 250 from Jammu, 103 from Udhampur, 83 from Rajouri , 42 from Kuthua, 58 from Samba, 93 from Poonch, 31 from Ramban, 67 from Doda, 33 from Reasi and 78 from Kishtiwar,” officials disclosed.

According to the bulletin, 403,268 persons have completed surveillance period and 53,090 persons are under home surveillance besides that so far results of 1,203,799 samples are available.

Out of 1,203,799 the number of samples tested negative stands at 1,151,389 while 52,410 have tested positive, among them 16,261 are active and 35,285 persons have recovered.

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