On March 9 evening, he took a train to Deoband and stayed there in the seminary till March 11. The same day, he travelled to Jammu by train and then from the following day, he was at a mosque in Samba area of Jammu till March 16. He, then, travelled back to Srinagar by an IndiGo flight on March 16. He took the same flight in which the first patient, a 67-year-old woman from Khanyar, was on board. She had tested positive for Coronavirus on March 18. She has recovered now, the doctors say.
From March 16 to March 18, the 65-year-old was in the mosque at Sopore with Tablighi jamaat. On March 18, he returned home at Hyderpora and developed symptoms. He was taken to a hospital on March 21, handed some medicine and was sent back. On March 22, a doctor sees him at the Government Medical College Srinagar and refers him to the Chest Disease Hospital. He was admitted there and tested positive on Tuesday.