July 10, 2020 | Kashmir POST

Rapid rise in coronavirus patients across Kashmir, records 57 deaths, 2024 positive cases in 9 days

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Editor

Over the past weeks, hospitals treating COVID19 patients in Srinagar are witnessing a steep escalation in the number of patients requiring intensive treatment and oxygen support. At Chest Diseases Hospital in Srinagar, a COVID19 designated facility of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, it was a house-full on Thursday. While the doctors had for long been complaining of asymptomatic cases “occupying” the hospitals, today they were struggling to ensure more than 50 percent of their occupants have oxygen support, in order to save their lives. Dr Saleem Tak, medical superintendent CD…

Things to know about airborne Coronavirus transmission

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Editor

More than seven months after the new coronavirus was first detected, scientists and health experts are still trying to get a better understanding of how it spreads and how to curb the COVID-19 respiratory disease it causes. The coronavirus is transmitted from person to person through “droplet transmission”, including direct contact with someone who has been infected, indirect contact with contaminated surfaces, droplets of saliva from coughing or discharge from the nose when sneezing, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Airborne transmission is also possible, but its effects and…