Srinagar, March 31 -- The number of Covid-19 patients in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday rose to 55 as six more persons contracted the disease. All of the fresh cases are from Kashmir Valley and includes a ten-year-old boy, who had hugged a man who later tested positive for coronavirus.

"6 new positive cases confirmed in Kashmir Division. All contacts of previous positive cases. Meanwhile contact tracing continues in both Jammu and Kashmir Divisions. Please cooperate," Govt spokesperson Rohit Kansal tweeted.

According to the official sources the boy, a resident of Eidgah Srinagar, tested positive for the pathogen and he had no history of travel. "He had hugged a man who later tested positive for the coronavirus," a senior doctor at SKIMS s...