Entire staff of a leading national news channel and a diagnostic laboratory and over two dozen health workers including a child specialist were among 344 people who tested positive for Coronavirus in Kashmir taking the number of COVID-19 positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 4087. Entire staff of a leading national English language news channel tested positive on Sunday. A cameraperson of the news channel residing in Bagh-e-Mehtab area of Srinagar had tested positive two days ago. He was admitted to Kashmir Nursing Home at Gupkar in Srinagar and its Bureau Chief from Kupwara presently living in Bagh-e-Mehtab Srinagar, Engineer resident of Babdem Srinagar and OB Technician from Nagbal Ganderbal were sent to quarantine and they tested positive today. The office of the news channel was already sealed by the administration two days ago. And entire staff members of a leading diagnostic laboratory based at Karan Nagar Srinagar tested positive. The laboratory has been sealed by the administration today. And Head of the Department of Paediatrics at GB Pant Children’s hospital in Srinagar is among half a dozen doctors who tested positive. The other doctors are from GB Pant Children’s hospital in Srinagar, Government Medical College Anantnag, SMHS hospital Srinagar and Super Speciality Hospital Sheerin Bagh Srinagar. Besides these two dozen staff of these hospitals also tested positive. A 38-year-old resident of Kolkata and a tailor by profession died at SMHS hospital in Srinagar and his samples tested positive for the COVID-19. With his death, the Corona positive patients death toll in Jammu and Kashmir has reached to 41 including 36 from Kashmir and five from Jammu.
