With 25 more persons, including 24 from Kashmir and one from Jammu, testing positive for Coronavirus on Monday, the total number of infected people has risen to 726 in the Union Territory of J&K.
Last week, 178 new people, including 174 from Kashmir and four from Jammu, tested for the virus this week in J&K.
Meanwhile, strict restrictions on movement and assembly of people to curtail the spread of Coronavirus continued even as the lockdown 3.0 commenced from Monday across the country.
An official on Monday said that 24 more people tested positive for Coronavirus in Kashmir division while one new case were reported from Jammu. “Baramulla recorded the highest number of 12 new COVID-19 cases followed by Budgam with four cases,” he said, adding two persons each were also tested positive from Shopian and Bandipora. “Three persons tested positive in Srinagar while one new COVID-19 case was recorded from Pulwama.
He said Jammu has recorded one case.
With 25 new cases, he said the total number of infected persons in J&K has risen to 726. “Out of these, 664 are in Kashmir and 62 are in Jammu,” he said.
He said the total active positive cases in the UT stand at 415, including 407 from Kashmir and eight from Jammu.
He said 16 COVID-19 patients from Kashmir discharged on Monday after being treated successfully. “As many as 303 positive patients were treated and discharged successfully so far,” he said.
Eight people have so far lost their lives latest being an 80-year-old woman who died in a hospital in Srinagar on Tuesday due to the infection.
An alarming number of 168 people were tested positive for the infection last week. As many as 118 people, including 111 from Kashmir and seven from Jammu, were tested positive for COVID-19 between April 13 and April 19. Meanwhile, 138 people, mostly from Kashmir, were tested positive for COVID-19 in J&K between April 6 and April 12. Thirty-three new positive cases, including 28 from Kashmir and three from Jammu, were reported on April 4 and April 5, making it one of the highest jumps in the COVID-19 infected persons in J&K.
J&K recorded first death due to COVID-19 on March 25, when a 65-year-old man from Hyderpora died due to the infection at Chest Disease Hospital. Then, on March 29, a 50-year-old man, a resident of Tangmarg, passed away at CD hospital.
Earlier last month, a 54-year-old Bandipora resident, who was tested positive for the infection, died at SMHS hospital. Later on April 8, a 61-year-old woman from Udhampur died at Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu. A 70-year-old patient died on April 17 due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley. An elderly man, a resident of Baramulla, on April 18 died due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley. A pregnant woman, who died at a hospital in Anantnag on Saturday, tested positive on April 26.