Agencies:

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday recorded the biggest single-day spike of 285 positive COVID-19 cases, as the number of infected persons crossed the 3000-mark, officials said, adding that this is the biggest single-day spike of the positive cases in the Union Territory so far.
While 63 of these cases are from the Jammu region, 222 are from Kashmir, they said.
The officials said the total number of cases in Jammu and Kashmir has now reached 3,142. Of these, 2,407 are in Kashmir and 735 in the Jammu region.
There are now 2,059 active cases in the union territory — 1,488 in Kashmir and 571 in Jammu. A total of 1,048 patients have recovered, the officials said.
The Union Territory has witnessed 35 COVID-19 related deaths so far.
According to daily Media Bulletin, 1,97,350 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases have so far been enlisted for surveillance which included 42,195 persons in home quarantine including facilities operated by government, 38 in Hospital Quarantine, 2,059 in hospital isolation and 53,745 under home surveillance. Besides, 99,278 persons have completed their surveillance period.