Covid19 is escalating at a fast pace, even when the United Arab Emirates has claimed to have made a major advancement towards finding the cure to the virus.
On Saturday, the total number of cases had rose upto 33,59,055 globally out of which a 10,59,275 patients had been recovered and a total of 2,38,999 have died, In India 37,336 have been confirmed, while as 9,951 have been recovered, the number of deaths stands at 1,218.
In Jammu Kashmir, the Union Health Ministry has classified only four districts as red zones in Kashmir division, authorities said on Saturday the entire Valley will be treated as red zone and no relaxation except those permissible in such cases will be allowed.
The decision comes in the wake of the two-week long extension in the national lock-down beginning on 04 May, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had announced.P.K. Pole, the Kashmir divisional commissioner has said that there is very little difference between the red and the orange zones, so caution will be exercised.
He said that only one district classified as the green zone which is South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, some new cases have come to light even in this district.
Bandipora, Srinagar, Shopian and Islamabad (Anantnag) have been classified as red zone and one district, Pulwama as the green zone while all other five districts of Kashmir division, Shopian, Kulgam, Ganderbal, Budgam and Baramulla have been tagged as Orange zone.
In Jammu division, none of the ten districts has been classified as the red zone