Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK): (Parliament Times) Azad Jammu Kashmir continued facing the rapid novel corona virus growt6h after 27 more cases, tested positive, detected and hospitalized in various parts of the state during last 24 hours raising tally to 1915 acros the State on Sunday, State health authorities said.
A the same time, 1201 patients out of total of 1915 tested positive in Azad Jammu Kashmir, have been discharged after complete recovery from various health facilities across the state so far, the state health authorities told media Sunday night.
These include 27 more patients discharged after complete recovery in the state-controlled health facilities across AJK on Sunday.
The State Health Services authorities confirmed the registration of 27 new cases in AJK – which include 06 each in Mirpur and Muzaffarabad, 08 in Bagh, 02 in Neelam Valley, 04 in Kotli and one in Bhimbher.
The pandemic has so far claimed a total of 47 persons died of the pandemic across AJK include 17 in Muzaffarabad, 05 in Poonch district, 05 in Mirpur, 07 in Bhimbher 06 in Bagh and 05 in Kotli, 02 in Neelam valley district.
Among a total of 667 patients tested positive, 581 housed in various home isolation outside their respective districts and rest of 86 patients admitted in various state-run hospital in different parts of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
A total of 277 new cases suspected of the pandemic, were tested in entire Azad Jammu Kashmir on Sunday.
According to the Health Authorities a total of 22494 suspected cases from various parts of the State were sent for test, of which a total of 1915 positive cases detected across the State so far, the authorities said.
At the same time AJK Health authorities said in a statement late Sunday a total of 19746persons were tested negative for COVID-19 while results of 52 cases were being awaited which were scheduled to reach in a day or two next.
A total of 58 Quarantine centers are constantly engaged in serving the pandemic-hit suspects for their recovery in all ten districts of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.