Jammu and Kashmir is all set to convert Kashmir University’s Zakura Campus is likely to be converted into a COVID hospital amid the surge in positive cases across the valley.
The campus was serving as a makeshift quarantine center from last three months where primary and secondary contacts of positive patients were kept.
Sources said two hostels and one academic block of Zakura Campus have been handed over to the Srinagar district administration in March.
“Space can accommodate around 300 patients. The government wants to convert the campus into the COVID-19 hospital given the spike in the cases.
Pertinently there are over 4000 positive cases in J&K at present and dozens are patients are on oxygen and are suffering from pneumonia.