Srinagar: Twenty people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, taking the number of the covid-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir to 454.

A senior doctor at SKIMS said that they have received fresh twenty positive cases from COVID-19 testing laboratory SKIMS Soura today.

Among the cases, he said that nine patient are from Bandipora, 5 cases are from Shopian, 4 from Kupwara and two patients are from Tangmarg,” he said.

Meanwhile, a doctor at CD Hospital Dalgate said that today the COVID-19 laboratory has processed 145 samples and reports of all returned to be negative.

He said that the reports of 96 samples which were received late yesterday are being processed and are pending. (GNS)