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Former President Pranab Mukherjee continues to remain critical and is on ventilator support, the Army’s Research and Referral (R&R) Hospital said on Tuesday, a day after he underwent brain surgery. The 84-year-old was admitted to the military hospital around noon on Monday and had also tested positive for COVID-19 prior…

Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday held a condolence meet at GMC Srinagar to mourn the demise of Dr Mohd Ahsraf Mir who breathed his last today at SKIMS hospital after battling Covid-19 infection for 2 weeks. He was 45. Paying rich tributes to the deceased, DAK President Dr Nisar…

Kashmir Valley reported fifteen more deaths due to COVID-19 since last night, taking the fatality count due to the virus to 465 in J&K, officials sources said on Saturday. They said that four deaths were reported from Kupwara, three each from Srinagar and Baramulla, two from Anantnag besides one each…

The total number of recoveries among COVID-19 patients in India has jumped to 13,28,336, pushing the recovery rate to 67.62 percent on Thursday, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 2.07 percent, the Union health ministry said. The recoveries exceeded active cases of the coronavirus infection by 7,32,835,…

he deadly Coronavirus on Wednesday claimed four more lives in Kashmir Valley, thus taking the toll of deaths due to COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir to 423. Officials told a local news agency that four patients who died in J&K include a 50-year-old woman from Kupwara, a 70-year old woman…

Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday said many Covid-19 patients are dying due to silent hypoxia, a condition in which patients have extremely low blood oxygen levels, yet do not show signs of difficulty in breathing. “The concern with this odd presentation is that patients are coming to hospitals in…

The Government on Monday informed that 590 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19),157 from Jammu division and 433 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 22006. Also 11 COVID-19 deaths have been reported, 2 from…

Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) is an innovative technological solution aimed at strengthening immunization supply chain systems across the country. This is being implemented under National Health Mission (NHM) by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. eVIN aims to provide real-time information on vaccine stocks and flows, and storage temperatures…

Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation Gaznafar on Monday said that all animal hides are collected from road sides, drains and dustbins and  have been buried by SMC Srinagar. In a tweet SMC Commissioner said all hides collected from roads , lanes, drains and dustbins have been buried by @SMC Srinagar frontline…