Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary - KPS Photo By: Firdous Qadri

Fight against COVID-19 collective effort, Srinagar done extremely well so far: DC

By Kashmir Age Online Last updated Apr 7, 2020

Srinagar, Apr 7: Asserting that fire against COVID-19 is a collective effort, Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary on Tuesday said that the city has done extremely well so far.

He, however, said some pictures were not encouraging.

“Fight Against COVID19 is a collective effort.#Srinagar has done extremely well so far. Still some pictures weren’t encouraging,” Dr Choudhary wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.

The Srinagar DC said that the administration has provided 3000 chairs on Monday to 150 Bank Units/ATMs. The chairs are being used by customers to await their turn to enter the banks or ATMs while maintaining safe social distance. “Request local volunteers/committees to join hands for Social Distancing,” he added.

Normal life remained crippled for the 19th successive day on Tuesday as restrictions on movement and assembly of people continued in Kashmir valley, where more areas have been declared as ‘Red Zones’ following upward spiral in the number of Coronavirus cases in J&K.

Over 28 areas, which were declared as ‘Red Zones’, remained sealed and no one was allowed in and out of these areas. Many other areas, including densely populated localities, including Chattabal, Eidgah and Jawahar Nagar, and other parts of the valley have been declared as ‘Red Zones’ during the last couple of days after several positive cases were reported from these area.

Dr Choudhary said the sealing of these areas is aimed at preventing spread of the coronavirus infection out of this area having reported several positive cases. He said it is also aimed at enabling smooth conduct of the survey in the area being a declared containment zone as ordered by the government.

Meanwhile, contact tracking and testing of Coronavirus suspects has been intensified in the valley, where three more persons on Monday tested positive for Coronavirus, taking the total number of infected people to 109 in J&K.

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