Srinagar, April 25: On April 9, this Srinagar family
comprising of five members was taken by a surprise as all of them were
tested positive for the Covid-19 pandemic without any travel history or
coming into direct contact to any positive patient.
In quarantine since then, they had something to cheer up today
as two siblings tested negative but three other family members
including father, mother and son retested positive.
This happened after all the five members of the family were
under quarantine in a SKIMS soura hospital since April 9. “We were
shocked to see the results, as my two sisters tested negative but my
parents and I tested positive again. Luck seems not to be favouring us
even in the fasting month of Ramdhan,” Imtiyaz Ahmed (name changed) told
news agency KINS.
“We are still clueless as to how we caught the virus. I and
my parent don’t want to stay in quarantine again. But there is no other
option,” he said. “Almighty is definitely annoyed with us. We are being
punished through this virus.”
The family members, father, son, two daughters and their
mother were tested positive on April 9. They belong to Eidgah area of
Srinagar’s old town.
“We are into the art of Khatamband ( a wood art) used to craft
unique designs on a special kind of wood used for ceiling in
residential houses, hotels, government offices and also in houseboats in
Kashmir,” Imtiyaz had told KINS.
He had said that somehow he along with his father were earning
to feed their three other family members and life was smooth. “We are
really walking down the memory lane as to how we got infected. We never
travelled, neither came in contact with any positive patient,” he had
said.
When the administration declared entire Eidgah as Red Zone
after 10-year-old boy tested positive, many samples around the area were
taken including this ill-fated family of five. “The results were
shocking as all of them were positive,” he said.
All the five family members were admitted in the quarantine
center and that they had no symptoms of Covid-19. “All of us are still
asymptomatic. None of us have any symptom. We are shocked to see our
test results even after spending two weeks in quarantine,” said Imtiyaz.
“Many questions haunt us. What if we tested positive in the
next test also.This virus seems to be strange. We have neither cough nor
cold and yet we test positive,” the young boy said.(KINS)