Fourteen persons including four securitymen, two of them Army soldiers and two CRPF personnel tested positive for Coronavirus in Jammu taking total Corona cases in the region to 400 and active to 301. They included seven who had travelled in different flights from New Delhi and Srinagar to Jammu and crews of the flights are likely to be quarantined and sampled for the virus. Seven persons who had travelled in four different flights from New Delhi and Srinagar to Jammu on May 26 and were sampled at the Jammu Airport on their arrival, tested positive for COVID-19. Three persons tested positive in one of the New Delhi-Jammu flight, two defence personnel in another New Delhi-Jammu aircraft and one each were on board in two separate flights that landed at Jammu Airport from New Delhi and Srinagar. A 45-year old man from Raipur Satwari in Jammu district, who happened to be contact of eight already positive cases of the same area, tested positive for COVID-19 and has been hospitalized. A CRPF personnel hailing from Krimchi in Udhampur district who was under administrative quarantine at Bantalab Jammu, has tested positive for the virus. He was on way to his home on leave and his sample was taken at Jammu Railway Station during which he tested positive. Six persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Kathua district including a CRPF jawan, who had come on leave to his residence at Kathua. Five other persons who tested positive were returnees from different States and hailed from Gurha Mudian, Billawar and Kathua. All of them were under administrative quarantine and asymptomatic and have been admitted in the COVID Hospitals. In Rajouri district, four persons have tested positive. They included two Army jawans, one each hailing from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, who had returned to duties after availing leave. Both of them were under quarantine at Army facilities. Two workers hailing from Kalakote tehsil of Rajouri district, who had returned from Mumbai, have also tested positive. Two youth hailing from Kanari, Mandi and Sangiot, Gursai in Poonch district tested Corona positive. The Sangiot youth is a student, who had returned from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh while Mandi youth is a worker and had returned from Mumbai. All were under administrative quarantine and now they have been shifted to the COVID Hospital. Nineteen police personnel have been quarantined in Poonch after wife of a Sub Inspector tested positive for Corona. The SI has also been quarantined and sampled. One person tested positive for Coronavirus in Reasi district, who happened to be a returnee. Jammu region now has 400 Corona positive cases, 301 of whom were active as 96 have been treated and discharged from the hospitals while there have been three deaths. Two patients were treated and discharged from the Chest Diseases Hospital, Bakshi Nagar Jammu.
