Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday recorded 493 fresh COVID-19 cases with 11 new fatalities within the past 24 hours, taking the coronavirus price past 200 within the union territory, officials said.
These details were issued by the Jammu and Kashmir administration late on Wednesday night.
As many as 493 new cases of the contagion were detected within the union territory during the past 24 hours taking the COVID tally to 11,666, the officials said.
“Eleven persons, who were COVID-19 positive, have died over the past 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir,” the officials said, adding, all the deaths happened within the Kashmir valley.
This has taken the price thanks to coronavirus within the union territory to 206 of which 188 deceased were from the Valley and 18 from Jammu region.
While 57 of the new cases were from Jammu region, 436 infected people were from the Valley.
There are 5,123 active cases within the union territory, while 6,337 patients have recovered from the infection.
The cases detected on Wednesday included 57 people that had returned to the union territory recently.
The officials said Srinagar district in central Kashmir recorded the very best number of cases 153 — on Wednesday, followed by 72 within the Anantnag district within the south.
With Wednesday’s fresh cases, the entire number of infected people in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up to 11,666.
Meanwhile, earlier during the day the UT’s health department issued an order preventing the govt testing laboratories from releasing any data regarding the pandemic to the media.
Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Department of Education , Atal Duloo issued the order directing the govt laboratories to not release any details to the press.
“It has been observed that each one the institutions at their own are giving official statements to the press / electronic media separately regarding the COVID Lab testing conducted in their respective institutions. As a result, there’s every likelihood of confusion on the precise number of total lab tests being administered , altogether the labs of the UT,” the order said.
It said the assignment of press briefing has been given to the Mission Director, National Health Mission, J&K, who after compilation of the reports of all the labs, briefs the media about the daily activities associated with COVID-19 including testing.