Following the death of the 63-year-old woman from Tikri area of Udhampur district, the first casualty in Jammu division due to coronavirus, the authorities have intensified the contact tracing of the woman’s family.

Authorities, in order to contain the spread of the disease, have suspended the emergency services of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Super Specialty Hospital, Kakryal in Katra, where the woman was first shifted following chest congestion and other problems.

Over a dozen staff members of Narayana hospital, including two doctors and paramedics, who came in contact with the patient, have been shifted to a quarantine centre.

The curve of Covid-19-infected persons has risen sharply in the past one week as over 100 people have tested positive in the Union Territory in the period. So far, four deaths have been reported in Jammu and Kashmir.