Srinagar, April 10: Luck didn’t favour a Kashmiri group who had travelled to Nigeria in South Africa and were put under mandatory quarantine in a tourist spot far from Srinagar. When their quarantine period completed, five of them tested positive and three negative.
Official sources told Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS) that eight people of Tableegi Jamaat were put under mandatory quarantine at Gulmarg resort of Kashmir. “They were lodged in an administrative quarantine center at Gulmarg with all the possible essential commodities available to them,” an official said.
He said that they had a travel history of Nigeria, where they had gone to attend a Tableegi Jamaat program in early March. “They cooperated with the administration and agreed to stay in 14- day mandatory quarantine in Gulmarg. All of them were asymptomatic but completed mandatory quarantine period.”
However, the day when they were supposed to be discharged, came their results. “Five of them were coronavirus positive and three negative. Luck didn’t favour the five,” an official privy to the tests told KINS.
After their tests came positive, the entire quarantine center staff was asked to stay in quarantine and the building was sanitized too.
Deputy Commissioner Baramullah, Dr. G. N. Itoo said that eight people were lodged in Gulmarg and they had a travel history of South Africa. “Five of them tested positive and three negative,” he told KINS.
“Those who served them have been now put on mandatory quarantine and there testes will also be done,” the DC said.
He said till date the administration in the Baramullah District have tested 153 people. “21 have been tested positive so far and 133 negative,” the DC informed.
Kashmir is already on an edge as the pandemic is spreading fast. In the past 24 hours, 56 cases were tested positive in Kashmir alone which signifies that the pandemic has almost taken an ugly turn. Four people, three of them in Kashmir, have already died of Covid-19. (KINS)