Jammu
A 63-year-old woman tested positive for coronavirus here, making her the first confirmed case in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. This raises the number of cases in the country to 41. Officials in Kochi on Monday said that a three-year-old child tested positive for coronavirus in Kerala.
The woman, who had a travel history to Iran, was among two patients who were declared ‘high viral load cases’ by the administration on the weekend. They are undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of the Government Medical College (GMC) hospital and are in a stable condition, the officials said.‘The test report of the woman patient is positive, while the report of the other patient is still awaited,’ a Health Department official said. Another woman, who had returned from Saudi Arabia, was admitted in GMC hospital Doda on Sunday and was kept under observation in an isolation ward, the officials said.
Her samples were sent to National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune for testing, they added.
After the two patients were declared ‘high load viral cases’ on Saturday, the administration announced immediate closure of all primary schools in six districts of the Union Territory and suspension of all biometric attendance till March 31 as a precautionary measure.—KMS
