Jammu and Kashmir still continues to record the Covid-19 cases in the region of 4000 which is four times more than the peak last year. An average of over 50 people is dying every day, more of them surprisingly in Jammu, even when more than double the region’s cases are witnessed in Kashmir. This has pushed the healthcare infrastructure to the breaking point and further rise in infections could create chaos akin to the one being witnessed in New Delhi.
In a proactive move to pre-empt the crisis, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha last week directed the healthcare officials to add 1050 more oxygen beds in the Kashmir division to ensure immediate treatment for the people requiring hospitalization. And to further ensure a sustained oxygen supply, the LG instructed the officers to ensure all newly installed oxygen plants have a backup buffer stock of oxygen cylinders.
Sinha also stressed expediting the inoculation drive calling for the programme to be completed on a “war footing to reduce the mortality rate”. He issued instructions for the introduction of vaccination in each municipal ward. And to this end, more mobile vans are being deployed. These vans are already operating in 36 municipal wards.
The administration, at the same time, is blamed for aiding the all-encompassing second wave in its bid to project normalcy in Kashmir for lowing the withdrawal of J&K autonomy on August 5, 2019. People are sore that thousands of tourists and the locals were allowed to visit Srinagar’s famous tulip garden and the cultural festivals, music concerts, fashion shows were organized - all part of a coordinated effort to show things are hunky-dory. This, at a time, when the second wave was fast spreading through some other parts of the country from where the tourists were coming.
CRUSHED ECONOMY
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