India, July 25 -- Srinagar: Following warnings of hospital authorities from Kashmir that they have no beds for Covid-19 patients, the administration in Kashmir on Wednesday decided to go for another strict six-day-long lockdown to flatten the curve. Earlier on 13 July, the district administration of Srinagar had already brought most of the areas under lockdown by announcing 68 areas as containment zones here. Despite all these orders, each day Kashmir valley is witnessing a huge surge in Covid positive cases. The figures are already touching 20,000 with the death rate also growing in the past few days.

Over 2,000 new cases have been reported from Kashmir in the past three days, with no beds available in the Covid hospitals here. The admi...