In an encouraging development Two Patients discharged in Jammu

Meanwhile, two COVID-19 positive patients were discharged from Government Medical College and Hospital today after the doctors said they werecured. 

One of them was a girl and has cured, an official confirmed.

According to sources the girl had come in contact with a covid-19 positive lady who had returned from Iran and is still under observation in GMC Jammu’s isolation ward.

Almost all the hospitals in Jammu have closed the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) to focus on suspected coronavirus cases.

“The hospital authorities have been arranging beds and other equipment required for the quarantine centers,” said a doctor.

Meanwhile, authorities have decided to establish isolation wards in some hospitals in Jammu. It has been decided that patients at Psychiatric Hospital will be shifted to CD Hospital Jammu

an encouraging development, one patient in Jammu and two others in Ladakh who had earlier tested positive for covid-19 and were in isolation have been discharged from the respective hospitals they were admitted at, after they showed “symptoms of recovery”, officials said on Tuesday.

Commissioner Secretary Ladakh, Rigzin Samphel said that reports of eighteen samples were received out of which 15 were from Kargil and 3 from Leh and all the reports were negative. “The reports included those of two patients who had earlier tested positive for covid-19 and were in isolation,” he said.

“Technically, now we have only 11 covid-19 positive cases as compared to earlier 13 cases because two of them have tested negative. The two were shifted from the isolation ward of the hospital to a quarantine facility. They will remain under surveillance,” Samphel said.

He said the reports of about other 30 samples are awaited.  It is to mention that no fresh case of coronavirus has been reported in Ladakh union territory for last one week.

The authorities have already ordered a lockdown in both the districts Leh and Kargil.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Kargil Baseer ul haq Chaudhary said at least 30 people who returned from foreign countries and had concealed their travel history were traced.