Srinagar: The overall positivity rate in Jammu & Kashmir has increased from 6.0 to 10.4 percent and case fatality rate increased front 0.9 to 1.7 percent.
Newly-released data accessed by news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO), and interpreted by Ziraat Times, suggests that as the Covid-19 cases and fatalities in Jammu and Kashmir witness a surge in both divisions of Kashmir and Jammu, case rates are more in Kashmir, while the fatality rate is high in Jammu division.
According to unpublished official data, the overall case positivity rate (CPR) in J&K has risen from 6.0 percent to 10.4 percent and case fatality rate (CFR) from 0.9 percent to 1.7 percent.
In Kashmir province CPR has gone up from 8.1 percent to 14.2 percent while CFR has risen from 0.6 to 1.1 percent. In Jammu province, CPR has risen from 4.1 percent to 7.1 percent while CFR has risen from 1.4 to 2.5 percent (CFR), reads the data.
No time period has been indicated in the data made available to Ziraat Times.
“Kashmir province had major impetus in tourist activity before the second wave and major breakdown in Covid-appropriate behaviour and discipline, leading to enhanced transmission and higher disease load. So, the disease was more prevalent in Kashmir province and death occurred more in Jammu province,” an official report said.
The data said that the SARS-CoV-2 variants both B.1.1.7 (the UK variant) AND B.1.617.2 (the Delta Variant) were seen exclusively in Jammu province.
“Both these have been designated as variants of concern and even variants of significant consequences are known to be more infectious, cause more severe disease, and may have immune evasion property”, the report added.
“The distances in the Jammu province are longer and the approach is more difficult due to complex terrains in regions like Doda, Ramban, and Poonch districts, because of this access of sick patients to tertiary care centres may be difficult and such patients reach such centres very late in the disease course,” it said. —(KNO)
