The number of covid-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday rose to 55 as three more persons have been confirmed to have contracted the dreaded disease, all of them from Kashmir and include a ten-year-old boy, who had hugged a man who later tested positive for coronavirus. “6 new positive cases confirmed in Kashmir Division. All contacts of previous positive cases. Meanwhile contact tracing continues in both Jammu and Kashmir Divisions. Please cooperate. Let’s #Fightittogether,” tweeted Principal Secretary Information Department. Official sources said that the boy, a resident of Eidgah Srinagar, tested positive for the pathogen and he had no history of travel. “He had hugged a man who later tested positive for the coronavirus,” a senior doctor at SKIMS said. He also confirmed that the boy’s test came out to be positive early morning. Two among those who tested positive are presently admitted to JNLM hospital and had come in contact with a man from Bemina who has tested positive earlier. With these six more persons testing positive for the globally raging disease, the number of covid-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up to 55.
