Jammu & Kashmir administration gears up to fight against novel coronavirus outbreak

Jammu and Kashmir's administration is keeping an eye on all suspected cases of Corona Virus and steps are being taken to keep disease at bay. Ensuring that Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is in a state of alert, Principal Secretary, Planning and Monitoring and Information, Rohit kansal said surveillance for this virus has been increased ever since first advisory was issued by Government of India on 2nd February 2020.

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He informed that "so far a total of 201 individuals have been contacted in Jammu and Kashmir. se include individuals who eir had a travel history to countries such as China, South Korea, Iran, Thailand, Italy, South East Asia, etc or came in contact with persons who had traveled to se countries. 21 suspected cases have been tested to date and positive case has been reported so far across J&K".

Kansal urged public t to panic and assured that entire administrative machinery which includes  health machinery has been activated and is in a state of full alert. All facilities are put in place as required, he added.

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"100 percent self-declaration at airports of Jammu and Srinagar will start from tomorrow to trace any such traveler having travel history to infected countries. Furr, checkpoints for passengers traveling by road have been set up at Lakhanpur and Lower Munda (Zig) to identify individuals with travel history to se countries", he added.

He furr informed that dedicated 24x7 Data Control Centres have been established at Srinagar and Jammu to receive information of travelers coming from affected countries and to receive information from Government of India to furr transmit same to districts for ir tracing at earliest, Kansal said, adding that all suspected cases are being mand through defined protocols.

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"We want to assure everybody that re is absolutely cause of panic. All required protocols and steps are being taken. Doctors, health specialists administrative officers of health departments are reaching out to everybody through mass media informing people at large of various respiratory hygiene, cough and sneeze etiquette, hand hygiene steps that are needed to be taken. department will continue to eng with everybody on se issues", Kansal maintained.

Responding to a question by media person, Bhupinder Kumar Mission Director NHM informed that an adequate number of facilities have been raised both in Jammu and Srinagar as well as district-level including quarantine and isolation facilities, ICUs with dedicated ventilators have also been set up.

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