Traffic on Srinagar-Jammu national highway was closed on Sunday due to imposition of Corona curfew from Saturday night to Monday morning following surge in the COVID-19 positive cases in the Union Territory.
An official spokesman said that on Saturday 2030 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19)–834 from Jammu division and 1196 from Kashmir division– have been reported thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 158374. Also 15 COVID-19 deaths have been reported, seven from Jammu Division and eight from Kashmir Division.
The traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway will be resumed only after the curfew restrictions are lifted on Monday.
