Srinagar, April 11: The five out of eight Kashmiris, who were tested positive after they travelled to Nigeria in December last year, are doing well at SKIMS run JVC hospital, officials said.
The authorities said that all the five positive patients, with travel history of Nigeria are doing well and are recovering even though they are asymptomatic.
Meanwhile one of the patients wished not to be named said, that they had travelled to Nigeria from Bombay in December 2019. “Five of us travelled to Nigeria (as part of Tableegi Jamaat) in December 2019. Two more travelled to Nigeria on January 7,” he said.
KINS had already reported that the group was put under mandatory quarantine in a tourist spot far from Srinagar and when their quarantine period completed, five of them tested positive and three negative.
Official sources had said that the group was put under mandatory quarantine at Gulmarg resort of Kashmir. “They were lodged in an administrative quarantine center at Gulmarg with all the possible essential commodities available to them,” an official had said.
“They cooperated with the administration and agreed to stay in 14- day mandatory quarantine in Gulmarg. All of them were asymptomatic but completed mandatory quarantine period.”
However, the day when they were supposed to be discharged, came their results. “Five of them were coronavirus positive and three negative. Luck didn’t favour the five,” an official privy to the tests had said.
Deputy Commissioner Baramullah,Dr G. N. Itoo had also said that eight people were lodged in Gulmarg and they had a travel history of South Africa. “Five of them tested positive and three negative,” he had said.(KINS)
