2 SSG Commandos Test Positive For Covid-19 in Kashmir

Sarfaraz A Lone reports from Indian occupied Kashmir

 

Srinagar, May 31: Two Special Security Group (SSG) commandos have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Kashmir Valley, officials told GNS on Sunday.

They said samples of eight SSG commandos were taken on May 27 and their results returned on May 29.
“Two among them, one a resident of Srinagar and another from Bandipora district, returned positive for the disease on May 29,” they said.

Confirming it, Dr. S. D. Singh Jamwal (IPS), Director SSG, told GNS these people belong to areas declared as Red Zones.

“One is from the area near Soura Srinagar and other Bandipora. After the declaration of the areas as red zones, they could not join duties and remained there,” he said, adding, “After they joined duties back, we quarantined them as per the protocol. During the process, while following SOPs samples were collected and sent for test. Out of those tested, two came out to be positive. They have been shifted to hospital.”

This is for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic that any member of the elite force tested positive for the disease in Jammu and Kashmir.

SSG, which was set up in 1996 after the National Conference president Farooq Abdullah came to power, is associated with security to the categorized protected persons including former chief ministers and their immediate family members. Besides, they are deployed at vital installations and to secure venues during sensitive events.

 

KNO adds:

IAS officer tests positive, officers among 15 contacts quarantined in Srinagar                    

No need to panic: Div Com Kashmir                      

Srinagar, May 31: Soon after an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer tested positive in Jammu last evening, as many as 15 persons including officials from different departments have been quarantined in Kashmir.

Sources told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that 15 persons including officials from different departments have been quarantined in Srinagar. “These persons were in contact with the officer during his stay here,” they said, adding that efforts on to trace all those who were in “unsafe sustained contact” with the officer during his visit to Valley.

As already reported, several top-ranking bureaucrats have been quarantined in Jammu after the IAS officer tested positive for  COVID- 19. “As many as six IAS officers and several officers of the Health and Medical Education Department were present in the meeting in which the officer, who later turned out positive, also participated, “sources said.

When contacted, Pandurang K. Pole said that they are tracing all those who had “unsafe sustained contact “with the officer. “There is no need to panic,” he said.

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