Another girl taken ill, 350 quarantined in Rajouri

While another 16-year-old girl was taken ill and shifted to the Government Medical College (GMC), Rajouri, on Friday, the Jammu and Kashmir government has so far quarantined 350 villagers of Badhaal village in three government facilities of the district.

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU:

At the same time, three sisters, who were airlifted to Jammu on Wednesday, have showed signs of improvement. Another 25-year-old youth, Aijaz Ahmed, undergoing treatment at the PGIMER, Chandigarh, is also responding to the treatment.

With the hospitalisation of the 16-year-old girl, the number of patients with illness symptoms has now gone up to 15 out of whom 14 are stable.

Eleven are admitted in GMC, Rajouri, three sisters in Jammu's GMC and SMGS Hospital and one at the PGIMER in Chandigarh. The unexplained disease has so far claimed 16 lives, including 13 children, since December 7 last year.