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As the Covid cases decline in the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday started the rafting activities in Ganderbal to boost adventure sports and tourism

Srinagar: As the Covid cases decline in the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday started the rafting activities in Ganderbal to boost adventure sports and tourism which bore the major brunt of the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the virus.

Speaking to news agency ANI, Rouf Tramboo, Chairman, Adventure Tour Operators Association of Kashmir said, “Due to COVID-19 wave, adventure and tourism activities decreased. Today, we started water rafting for this season in the Singh Nala river. This is for those tourists who want to take a joyride.”

“It is a good initiative by J-K tourism. It is the first activity in adventurous sports after the pandemic. This will boost tourism. We want such activities to take place in the future as these activities had decreased for the last 1-2 yrs due to pandemic,” a participant said.

Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday recorded 347 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the infection count to 3,16,976, while two more deaths raised the toll to 4,337, officials said. Of the fresh cases, 144 were from the Jammu division and 203 from the Kashmir division of the union territory, the officials said.

They said Srinagar and Reasi districts recorded a maximum of 75 cases each. The number of active cases has dropped to 3,967 in the union territory, while 3,08,672 patients have recovered so far, the officials said.

They said the number of confirmed cases of mucormycosis (black fungus) stood at 30 in the union territory as no fresh infection was reported.