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We took some smart street questions on Covid19 and asked various specialists fighting the pandemic within and outside Kashmir hospitals. The responses made it easier for people to understand that we all have to manage the recurrent viral assaults till we mend fences with the contagion, reports Yawa...

As desperate families go to market, exorbitantly priced oxygen concentrators are making them unaffordable for Covid-19 patients homecare. Now the crisis is that leisure oxygen-generators are being sold for medical oxygen concentrators, reports Saifullah Bashir Mohammad Azan Khan, 30, a resident of...

As the Covid-19 unleashes its carpet-bomb-morbidity in Kashmir, hundreds of individuals and groups have redoubled their efforts to restrict the possibly colossal costs. They are doing anything and everything and supplementing the efforts of the government as well. Right now, Oxygen and food retains the top slots, reports Khalid Bashir Gura Kashmir’s major charity, the Athrout handing over six high-value ventilators to the management of Chest Disease Hospital in Srinagar in April. The hospita...

Chenab’s Ababeel Saifullah Bashir meets the group leader that oversees the Chenab region like a bird and tries everything to mitigate the crisis A group of Ababeel volunteers near the rescue boats. KL Image: Special arrangement In 2014 when devastating floods hit Kashmir, a group of youth in Chenab Valley pledged to help the affected people in other districts. In Doda, they raised donations locally and brought essential items, later delivering relief to flood-hit areas like Shopain, K...

Yawar Hussain You do not require a funeral ground – even a road is ok because not many people come to join. In this photograph relatives and locals attending the funeral prayers of Covid Positive person at Zadi Masjid Safa Kadal Srinagar Tuesday, May 4, 2021. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur On April 25, Saifullah Bashir was taken aback when he got a call from a health department official declaring him Covid-19 positive after a wait of eight days. During this period he had mingled with his family as h...

SRINAGAR: On 20 th April my online editor, Tahir Bhat tested positive for COVID 19. I along with six other staffers of Kashmir Life went into self-quarantine following contact with him. Two days after the incident, when heavy rain lashed Srinagar, I went to Upper Primary Health Centre Batamaloo. I was of the opinion that it will take me few minutes to get tested for the novel Coronavirus but my perceptions turned topsy-turvy as it took me three hours to get tested. While waiting in the long qu...

Covid In Newsroom Masood Hussain narrates how while covering it, the dreaded virus caught up with the Kashmir Life team. The contagion brooks no complacency is the moral of the story Kashmir Life Newsroom witnessed a 10-day long closure amid a series of fumigations. KL Image by Shuaib Wani Circa 2020. After being shut for months, surviving as they were on dollops of vanilla journalism, newsrooms were getting back to what they ought to be; buzzing with activity. The newspapers were tryin...

A Gatekeeper’s Tale Saifullah Bashir On his retirement day, all the staff members acknowledged the dedication and spirit of Rafiq. In 1979, Mohammad Rafiq Shiekh was appointed as a daily-wager at the department of sports in the Government College for women at Moulana Azad Road Srinagar. Sheikh was a teenager then. He wanted to help his family financially so he agreed to work at the college.  He was unaware that this college will be his first and last place to serve. With a meagre sala...

bySaifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: On April 20, Turab Shah, 30, received a call from her sister, Ishrat, 37. She informed him about being tested COVID-19 positive. Ishrat along with her husband lives in the Gulab Bagh area of Srinagar. But a day before she was tested positive, she was at her brother’s home in Karan Nagar, where she met her elderly mother too. “Get all family members tested immediately,” Ishrat told Shah over the phone. Acting quickly, shah got all of his family members tested. ...

By Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: The unscheduled and prolonged power cuts during the ongoing month of Ramzan has irked the common people who castigate the administration for failing to live up to their claims of providing uninterrupted services at least in the summer capital Srinagar.