Recovery rate slips from 78 to 67 percent, Active cases over 16 thousand in J&K*
Srinagar, Sep 12 : Jammu and Kashmir reported the highest ever single day spike of 1,698 cases of Covid-19 pandemic including 135 travelers taking the total number of positive cases to 52,410 in the Union Territory.
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 told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), 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 Jammu and Kashmir has reached to 35,285 which is 67.32 percent of the total cases which was over 78 percent few day before.
Notably, ist time since covid-19 outbreak, active cases have reached over sixteen thousand in J&K and active cases in Jammu division are more than recovered cases.
“Cases tested positive in J&K 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.
As per officials figures, 11,489 positive cases including 248 deaths and 9,329 recoveries are from Srinagar, 3,580 including 70 deaths and 2,284 recoveries are from Budgam, 3,399 including 2,414 recoveries and 112 deaths are from Baramulla, 3,119 including 2,620 recoveries and 60 deaths are from Pulwama, 2,848 including 53 deaths and 2,119 recoveries are from Anantnag, 2,784 including 1,788 recoveries and 56 deaths are from Kupwara, 2,710 cases including 1,886 and 28 deaths are from Bandipora, 2,069 including 1,903 recoveries and 40 deaths are from Kulgam, 2,025 including 1,461 recoveries and 25 deaths are from Ganderbal and 1,865 including 1,688 recoveries and 29 deaths are from Ganderbal.
In Jammu division, 7,947 including 2,604 recoveries and 85 deaths are from Jammu district, 1,398 including 815 recoveries and 4 deaths are from Udhampur, 1,364 including 825 recoveries and 15 deaths are from Rajouri, 1,285 including 870 recoveries and 15 deaths are from Kathua, 1037 including 620 recoveries and 08 deaths are from Samba, 489 including 400 recoveries and 06 deaths are from Poonch, 503 including 653 recoveries and 01 death is from Ramban, 481 including 394 recoveries and 09 deaths are from Doda, 570 including 355 recoveries and 03 deaths are from Reasi and 565 including 354 recoveries and 01 death are from Kishtwar.
As per the daily information bulletin, 515,897 persons in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 42,414 persons have been kept under home quarantine besides that 16,261 persons are in isolation.
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—(KNO)
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*2014 like deluge can grip Kashmir anytime again, say officials*
*Can tackle middle level deluge easily, 2014 like situation can’t be accommodated at present: CE I&FC*
Mubashir Aalam Wani
Srinagar, Sep 12 (KNO): Even after elapsing six years since the 2014 deluge hit Kashmir Valley in the month of September, the government has failed to complete the requisite process to prevent such a catastrophe in the future.
As per the sources, the second phase of the much-hyped dredging process has also not been started yet, thus putting the lives and properties of people here at risk again.
It is pertinent to mention here that, as per the reports at least 280 people were killed in the 2014 floods across the state, and property worth crores was also damaged.
Sources in the Irrigation and flood Control (I&FC) department told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the dredging process that was started nearly a year after 2014 floods has not been completed yet as the second phase of the process is yet to be initiated.
They said that it was planned that the dredging and de-silting of River Jhelum will be completed by March 2019. However, he said that the second and the main phase of the process has not been started, which would increase the capacity of the river Jhelum.
As per the official details available, the second phase of the process is expected to improve the Jhelum’s water carrying capacity “to its maximum capacity of 60,000 cusecs [cubic feet per second] in South Kashmir”.
In Srinagar, this capacity is to be increased to 35,000 cusecs. The remaining 25,000 cusecs is to be diverted through the flood spill channel, whose discharge capacity is also proposed to be increased, the figure revealed.
Talking to KNO, Chief Engineer Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC), Iftikhar Kakroo said that the second phase of the dredging was not started yet. “The phase-II of the process will be started in this year only,” he said.
Asked whether the department is ready to prevent the 2014 like deluge in future, he said the department is ready to tackle middle level deluge, but was not yet capable to tackle the 2014 like situation.
“We are trying to reach there in stages. At present, the department is not ready to accommodate that level of flood. But, we are gradually moving towards that,” he said. “It will take more time to reach to stage where we can accommodate 2014 like flood,” he said.
Earlier, in January 2018, reports quoting the officials had said that the dredging process in river Jhelum started as flood preventive measure will be completed under the deadline set by the state government.
The Rs-280 crore project for phase-I was awarded to Kolkata based company to clear the excessive siltation that had accumulated and drastically reduced the carrying-capacity of river Jhelum.
Reach Dredging Private Limited, the Kolkata-based firm had also assured that the pending work will be completed under the deadline set by the then state government.
However, later in 2018, the department of Irrigation and Flood Control (I& FC) had asked the Kolkata based dredging firm to wind up operations here after it failed to the meet the 31st March deadline—(KNO)