No test could be 100 Percent accurate: DAK

No test could be 100 Percent accurate: DAK

Srinagar, June 10 (KNS): Amid buzz over possible errors in diagnosis with both RT-PCR tests and the faster antibody-based tests, president Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK), Dr Suhail Naik Wednesday said despite best efforts, no test can be 100% accurate. Dr Naik, who is a senior paediatrician, said every test has its own rate of true […]

Market Opening In City: Crucial Meet Between Traders, DC Today

Market Opening In City: Crucial Meet Between Traders, DC Today

Srinagar: The final meeting to open shops in the city centre—Lal Chowk and other areas of Srinagar will be taken after a crucial meeting between traders and the deputy commisoner Srinagar today afternoon, official sources told news agency. They said the traders have already given a written undertaking that they will follow the Standard Operating Procedure […]

BMO Handwara suspended for “inability as administrator, abusing female staff”

BMO Handwara suspended for “inability as administrator, abusing female staff”

Srinagar: The Directorate of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK) has suspended Block Medical Officer, Handwara, for incompetence and using unparliamentary language with staff and general public, reported a news agency, Press Trust of India. An order issued by the DHSK on Tuesday said that an inquiry had been constituted against BMO Handwara, Dr Abdul Majid over a complaint […]

‘5.5 lakh COVID cases in Delhi by July 31 possible’: Scientists reiterate Govt’s estimate

‘5.5 lakh COVID cases in Delhi by July 31 possible’: Scientists reiterate Govt’s estimate

New Delhi: Mathematical models of the progression of COVID-19 show it would be “possible” for Delhi to have 5.5 lakh cases by the end of July, several scientists have said while stating that community transmission of the disease may have started a while ago. Warning of more trouble ahead, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on […]

Pak records highest single-day spike of 5 387 cases WHO urges ‘intermittent lockdown’

Pak records highest single-day spike of 5 387 cases WHO urges ‘intermittent lockdown’

Islamabad : Pakistan has registered its highest single-day spike of coronavirus cases with over 5,000 infections in the last 24 hours, a day after the World Health Organisation urged the government to follow an “intermittent lockdown” policy to stem the spike in the disease. According to the Ministry of National Health Services, 83 more COVID-19 […]

Shopian gunfight: Two more militants killed, toll 5

Shopian gunfight: Two more militants killed, toll 5

Srinagar: Two more militants were killed in a gunfight that broke between militants and the government forces in Sugoo-Hendhama village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, taking the toll of killed militants to five. A local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), quoted unnamed official sources saying that five militants have been killed in the […]

J&K Covid hospitals ‘overburdened’, doctors want asymptomatic patients in home quarantine

J&K Covid hospitals ‘overburdened’, doctors want asymptomatic patients in home quarantine

Srinagar: A woman admitted to Srinagar’s Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial (JNLM) hospital for Covid-19 tried to escape Sunday after she tested positive for a fifth time. An asymptomatic case, she was first brought in on 2 May along with her husband and three children, who were also asymptomatic. While her family eventually tested negative and were discharged, […]