The INS News
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Regional
    • Srinagar
    • Jammu
    • National
    • World
  • Business & Economy
  • Multimedia
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video Gallery
  • Health
  • Jobs & Careers
  • Press Releases
  • Blog
  • Home
  • News
    • Regional
    • Srinagar
    • Jammu
    • National
    • World
  • Business & Economy
  • Multimedia
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video Gallery
  • Health
  • Jobs & Careers
  • Press Releases
  • Blog
No Result
View All Result
The INS News
No Result
View All Result
Home News Regional

Union Home Secy reviews COVID-19 management in J&K

INS Desk by INS Desk
August 4, 2020
A A
Union Home Secy reviews COVID-19 management in J&K
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterWhatsappTelegramEmail

Srinagar: The Union Home Secretary, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, today chaired a high level meeting to review the management of COVID-19 pandemic in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief Secretary, J&K, B V R Subrahmanyam, Financial Commissioner, H&ME, Atal Dulloo, Additional Secretary (UT), Govind Mohan, Joint Secretary, Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary (JK), Manish Tiwari and Mission Director (NHM), Bhupinder Kumar were present in the meeting.
At the outset, Health and Medical Education Department gave a presentation on prevailing situation in the UT. The meeting was informed that J&K is performing reasonably well in mitigating COVID-19 pandemic with 53,323 tests per million population, 1,746 cases per million population, doubling rate of 27.2 days, 3.3% positivity rate, 61.3% recovery rate, and 1.8% mortality rate. It was mentioned that the UT has so far conducted 6.5 lakh tests and currently has 21,416 confirmed cases, 7893 active cases, 13,127 recovered cases and 396 deaths. Union Home Secretary while reviewing the COVID death audit report observed that most of the critical patients die within 72 hours of hospitalization. He emphasized on the need to tackle the issue. Regarding testing capacities, Chief Secretary said that the related infrastructure has been ramped up and against the WHO recommendation of 140 tests per million population per day, J&K is now conducting 900 tests per million per day. For this, 5 additional testing laboratories, 4 CBNAAT facilities and 15 TRUENAT laboratories were established in government medical institutions, besides, augmenting the RTPCR tests with Rapid Antigen Tests. Further, the Government is also in the process of procuring 3 COBAS 6800 fully automated systems to enhance per day testing capacity, which is currently at 12,000 tests per day. Further, Chief Secretary informed that the Government has recently revised home quarantine guidelines to permit such isolation in favour of asymptomatic patients with no co-morbidity and have Arogya Setu app downloaded for better monitoring, adding that they are being provided with Government sponsored oxymeters with the instruction of reporting to hospitals if their oxygen saturation level dips below 90%. “This will reduce the burden on healthcare institutions and will pave way to better monitoring of critical cases”, he said.
While sharing the data on surge of bilateral pneumonia cases in the valley, Chief Secretary sought help of the Union Government through a technical team of experts for analysing such cases and advising on probable containment of its spread.

RELATED POSTS

Water supply to remain affected in Sgr areas tomorrow

CM Omar calls for revival of Buyer-Creator relationship at SKICC Meet

Govt has made all arrangements for smooth Amarnath Yatra: CM Omar

Buy JNews
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

4% seats reserved in professional colleges of J&K for stundets of Ladakh

Next Post

4% seats in professional institutions reserved for Ladakh

INS Desk

INS Desk

Related Posts

Water supply to remain affected on Oct 30-31 in Sgr areas
Regional

Water supply to remain affected in Sgr areas tomorrow

June 30, 2025
CM Omar calls for revival of Buyer-Creator relationship at SKICC Meet
Regional

CM Omar calls for revival of Buyer-Creator relationship at SKICC Meet

June 30, 2025
“I Was the Chief Minister of a State… Now of a Union Territory — This Must Be Corrected Soon”: Omar at Katra event
Regional

Govt has made all arrangements for smooth Amarnath Yatra: CM Omar

June 30, 2025
Under PM’s guidance, J&K Govt changed lives of tribal communities in 4 years: LG
Regional

All arrangements in place for peaceful, successful Amarnath Yatra: LG Sinha

June 30, 2025
Sajad Lone, Hakeem Yaseen, JeI-backed JDF launch ‘’People’s Alliance for Change’
Regional

Sajad Lone, Hakeem Yaseen, JeI-backed JDF launch ‘’People’s Alliance for Change’

June 30, 2025
3 persons killed in Kishtwar accident
Regional

4 injured in accident near Nowgam Railway Station

June 30, 2025
Next Post
4% seats reserved in professional colleges of J&K for stundets of Ladakh

4% seats in professional institutions reserved for Ladakh

Tobacco ban would prevent 40% cancer cases: DAK

Silent hypoxia killing Covid-19 patients: DAK

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *




Govt Calls For Making GPDPs ‘All Encompassing’

October 13, 2022
DGP Chairs Meeting On Darbar move: ‘Prepare move officials list’

DGP Chairs Meeting On Darbar move: ‘Prepare move officials list’

April 14, 2020
Tobacco ban would prevent 40% cancer cases: DAK

Supplements don’t boost immunity against Covid-19: DAK

September 21, 2020

About

Indian News Service (INS) is the first registered online news portal from the state of Jammu & Kashmir. Our creative team consists of like-minded and socially concerned team of media professionals who carry decades of experience in their field of profession at their back. Our core values have pillars in honesty, empathy, credibility, equality and integrity.

More

© 2022 INS News - Designed by GITS.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Regional
    • Srinagar
    • Jammu
    • National
    • World
  • Business & Economy
  • Multimedia
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video Gallery
  • Health
  • Jobs & Careers
  • Press Releases
  • Blog

© 2022 INS News - Designed by GITS.