Fourteen persons including four females, two of them patients, tested positive in nine out of 10 districts of Jammu on Monday taking total number of Corona patients in the region to 163 and active cases to 101. A 30-year old woman, a resident of Langar, Kaluchak in Jammu district, who had returned recently along with her husband and six-year old son from AIIMS New Delhi, tested Corona positive today. Her husband and son will be sampled tomorrow. The woman was under home quarantine in view of her medical history. SHO Gangyal Inspector Sunil Singh Jasrotia led police teams visited the area and isolated family members for quarantine and sampling. The area will be sealed on Tuesday after being declared as Containment Zone. A 70-year old woman of Qasim Nagar near Bagh-e-Bahu in Jammu, who had returned from New Delhi and was under administrative quarantine at MA Stadium, has also tested positive for COVID-19. Police parties from Bagh-e-Bahu police station led by SHO Inspector Sunil Kumar reached Qasim Nagar and sent four contacts of the woman to quarantine centre. Both the COVID positive woman of Kaluchak and Qasim Nagar, who were asymptomatic, have been admitted in the Gandhi Nagar hospital. A 19-year old female student of Astan Mohalla, Doda, who was studying at Pune in Maharashtra and had been operated upon at Ludhiana, also tested Corona positive. She was first Corona patient in Doda district. SSP Doda Mumtaz Ahmad said all contacts of the girl have been isolated for quarantine for sampling. The girl had reached Doda on May 15, he added. Kishtwar district also recorded its first Corona case, when 25-year old student of Kishtwar town, who had returned from Ludhiana and was under administrative quarantine, tested positive for COVID-19, DC Kishtwar Rajinder Singh Tara said, adding he has been sent to the hospital while his contacts have been isolated. A 27-year old woman from village Chak Bhagwa in Samba district has also tested positive for COVID-19. She had recently visited SMGS Hospital for medical examination as she had symptoms of the virus and was sent for testing by the doctors. Two persons from Ramnagar-one hailing from village Satyalata and another from Barmeen-in Udhampur district tested positive. Both of them were workers and had returned from New Delhi recently. They were already under administrative quarantine. Two youth from village Kanthol in Koteranka tehsil of Rajouri district, who had returned from Mumbai, have also tested Corona positive. They were under administrative quarantine at Rajouri. Two persons of Kathua district hailing from Hatli Morh and Nagri, who had returned from Maharashtra and New Delhi respectively, have reported positive for Coronavirus, District Magistrate Kathua OP Bhagat said. A returnee tested Corona positive in Ramban district. With 14 positive cases, Jammu region now has 163 cases. Of them, 101 were positive cases. There have been 60 recoveries and two deaths in Jammu region.
