Murmu monitors fight against Covid

Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 21

Lt-Governor GC Murmu is paying personal attention to the efforts being made by his administration in the Union Territory of J&K and is responding to all the demands that come forth during regular sessions of interaction with officials.

Murmu has set up a monitoring cell of his own in which he, according to sources, takes a regular feedback over the developments, ranging from the daily count of the positive cases of Covid as also how any of them were discharged after treatment and the state of affairs of the quarantine centres. He is mapping the developments on a chart in which the scientific and mathematical analysis is done by him with the assistance of the officials.

Jammu and Kashmir has recorded nearly 400 cases, and more than two dozen of them have been discharged after the treatment. Most of the cases have come from the two districts of Bandipore and Srinagar, while Shopian, too, has started recording positive cases.

The Lt-Governor’s message to the officers is that “ the curve is to be flattened whatever it takes to do so,” a source quoted him telling the officials in one of the series of meetings that he has been chairing almost on daily basis.

The sources said he wanted complete lockdown in all the hotspots — there are more than 90 across the Union Territory.