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Anantnag June 16 (KINS): In an example of blatant negligence, authorities in Pulwama allowed all inmates to go home from the quarantine centre despite two samples for COVID-19 testing were missing.
A Kachipora Pulwama youth returned from Pune on May 24. He was kept in a quarantine centre along with several people at Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora for 11 days.
“I was then told my test is negative and was allowed to go home like others. I was with my family members for three days before officials told him I have to come again for sampling as two samples had gone missing. Then my sample was collected which tested positive,” he told news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS).
He said all his eight family members have got infected. One-year-old baby has also been infected. “This is all because of negligence of the authorities who allowed everyone to go home from quarantine centre despite two samples were missing. Among two people whose samples were missing, one was tested positive. We caught the infection there because we were using one washroom and many were put up in one room,” he claimed.
CMO Pulwama Dr Haseena when contacted said that she has no information in this regard. “I don’t have any information. I will confirm it from my BMO then I can comment on it,” she told KINS.
BMO Pampore said he will seek details from concerned medical officer.
“I will get the details then only make comments,” the BMO said.
This is not an isolated case; there are many incidents when COVID-19 positive cases were sent home, risking the lives of their families.
One of the cases of alleged negligence came to the fore in Baramulla when a patient was declared positive for novel coronavirus. However a day after he was allowed to go home by administration after testing “negative” for COVID-19 and was later told he is positive.
In another case, a 40-year-old man who was kept under official quarantine at Baramulla town was discharged after being declared negative for COVID-19. Then he was told by the administration to immediately return to the quarantine facility citing that his test has come positive for the same disease.
In another case a person from Handwara was discharged from a COVID-19 quarantine centre after declaring him negative for the disease. However, the officials rushed to put him in isolation after his test reports came positive for the deadly disease.
“These cases are typical examples of official negligence which has put lives of many others in the quarantine centre at risk in addition to the family members of these people,” opined a doctor on the condition of anonymity. (KINS)
Covid testing capacity ramped up to 3 lakh tests per day; recovery rate reaches 52.46 pct
Srinagar, June 16 (KINS): The Union Government Tuesday said that the COVID-19 recovery rate has reached 52.46 per cent in the country and a total of one lakh 80 thousand 13 people affected with Coronavirus have been cured in the country.
“During the last 24 hours, 10 thousand 215 people have recovered from this infection. Presently, the total number of active Corona cases in the country is one lakh 53 thousand 178” the government said.
According to news agency kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS), the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that 10 thousand 667 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to three lakh 43 thousand 91 in the country. “During the last 24 hours, 380 deaths were registered taking the nationwide toll to nine thousand 900. With this, the case fatality rate reached at 2.88 per cent in the country”.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total of one lakh 54 thousand 935 tests of Corona virus were conducted by the various laboratories in the country within the last 24 hours. “So far, 59 lakh 21 thousand 69 tests have been conducted. ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 907 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for COVID-19 including 659 government laboratories and 248 private laboratory chains” it said. (KINS)
