Arun Sharma

The cases in the UT included 50 in Kashmir and 17 in Jammu province.

All three deceased were residents of Hinghal village in Ramban district. While two teens were employed at a fast food joint in the Valley, Mohi-ud-Din was a labourer.

Nine days on, he still waits for his wife, who is held up at Pathankot.

India’s unorganised workers make up 82.7 per cent or 39.14 crores of the total 47.41 crore estimated employed persons, according to last NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey, 2011-12.

“All foreign tourists and visitors coming to J&K will be quarantined,” said UT spokesperson Rohit Kansal. “Similarly, one hundred per cent quarantine will be imposed for all visitors from the Union Territory of Ladakh.”

The UT government has also made self declaration mandatory for all the people travelling in train between Banihal-Qazigund.

People flying to the Union Territory from Ladakh as well as all visiting foreigners will be quarantined. Inter-state buses entering Jammu and Kashmir, too, will be checked and sanitized at an entry point in Kathua.

In its advisory, the Board has also advised domestic pilgrims to reschedule or postpone their visit in case they experience symptoms. According to sources, an average of 25,000 people are visting the shrine each day.

According to the communication from Home Ministry, the advisor shall assist the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in effective discharge of his functions.

The court said there were sufficient grounds to draw the presumption that the accused have committed the offence.

The court said there was enough prima facie evidence to prosecute Malik in the case.

The prohibitory order, issued by District Magistrate Rajinder Singh Tara, the virus has a pattern of transmission at a rapid rate in case prescribed preventive protocols including avoiding gathering etc. are not strictly followed.

According to the health ministry, the number of confirmed cases in India now stands at 81, with one death till now, a 76-year-old man from Kalaburgi in Karnataka.

Rules say maintain prescription register with patients’ details but no trace of many bottles from contaminated batch.

However, Board and other competitive examinations will be conducted as per schedule, said National Health Mission Director Bhupinder Kumar.

Over a month of investigations, first by a team of doctors from PGIMER-Chandigarh and later by drug control regulators, revealed on March 2 that the syrup was, in fact, the culprit.

Coronavirus outbreak India updates March 9: Two fresh cases were reported in Maharashtra's Pune, taking the number of positive cases to 47. Other cases have been reported from Karnataka, Punjab, Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Bukhari was expelled from the PDP in January 2019 following allegations that he ‘inspired and led dissent in the party’.

“A preliminary report of their samples sent to AIIMS, Delhi, shows they have tested positive. We are waiting for the final test reports before officially declaring them as confirmed cases,” said epidemiologist Dr Deepak Kapoor.