Four more test positive for COVID-19 in Jammu, cases rise to 48

number of coronavirus cases in Jammu rose to 48 on Sunday as four more persons tested positive for infection, officials said. An Army jawan who was visiting his home town in Samba district and a doctor posted in Udhampur district are among those who tested positive. or two cases have been reported from Roop Nagar and Satwari areas, y said.

Army jawan is posted outside Jammu and Kashmir. He was on leave and h come to his home town in Samba on March 18. He was under quarantine but was shifted to isolation ward of Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu after he developed some symptoms, officials said. His test came back positive for coronavirus, making him district's first case, y said.

Jammu h reported five COVID-19 cases on Saturday.

se included a 28-year-old woman from Trangali vill in Akhor sector who gave birth to a baby at Sri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SGMS) Hospital here last week, officials said.

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All medical staff who handled her case have been sent to ministrative quarantine, y said. According to officials, woman was asymptomatic when she was mitted to sub-district hospital, Akhor on April 8 for delivery. She was shifted to SMGS Hospital next day.

However, after delivery she developed symptoms like fever and cough and was tested for COVID-19. She and her newborn along with five or patients undergoing treatment at hospital have been shifted to dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Gandhi Nagar, y said.

Both sub-district and SGMC hospitals were thoroughly sanitised and fumigation was carried out within premises, y ded.

samples of newborn and or family members of woman have also been sent for testing. woman h history of travel or contact with any positive case, y said.

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