Srinagar: Two siblings, aged 7-years and 8 months-old respectively, have tested positive for coronovirus disease (covid-19) in Srinagar on Thursday, officials said.
Sources said that they had come in contact with their grandfather, a 65-year-old man from Natipora who had arrived from Saudi Arabia March 16 and tested positive on Tuesday.
“Two more positive cases in Srinagar. Siblings (7 years old and 8 months old)- grandchildren of a confirmed case from Srinagar with travel history to Saudi Arabia who had tested positive on 24th. Total number of active positive cases now 11,” government spokesman Rohit Kansal said.
A senior doctor at JLNM hospital said that the duo is presently admitted in the hospital at Rainawari and their samples were taken recently. “The test reports were received today and they came out to be positive,” the doctor said. The man from Natipora had returned from Saudi Arabia on March 16 after performing Umrah and had shared the same flight as that of the Kashmir’s first covid-19 patient, a 67-year-old woman from Srinagar’s Khaniyar area who, according to the doctors at SKIMS Soura, is recovering.
So far ten people have tested positive in Kashmir, four of them residents of Hajin Bandipora who are aged between 25 to 33 years and they had came in contact with the sexagenarian man from Hyderpora who died at Chest Disease hospital early today. In all, 13 persons have tested positive for the covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, three of them are in winter capital of the UT of J&K.
