Two more persons - one each in Kathua and Udhampur districts-who had recently returned from outside Jammu and Kashmir tested positive for COVID-19, taking total number of Corona cases in the Jammu region to 70 and active cases to 14.

Both the persons tested positive for COVID-19 were part of stranded persons who had returned from outside and were under administrative quarantine in Kathua and Udhampur districts. A worker from Udhampur district, who had been under administrative quarantine at a Government building, tested positive for Corona at the Command Hospital in Udhampur.

A 60 year old worker from Basohli tehsil in Kathua district, who had recently crossed Lakhanpur and was under institutional quarantine at Haat & Craft Centre Basohli, has also tested positive. He too was on way to the Chest Diseases Hospital, Bakshi Nagar.