With 18 more persons, including 15 from Kashmir and three from Jammu, testing positive for Coronavirus on Thursday, the total number of infected people has risen to 793 in the Union Territory of J&K.
Meanwhile, the death toll due to the infection has plunged to nine with a 34-year-old COVID-19 positive patient dying in a hospital on Thursday in the valley, where 13 infected people were discharged after being successfully treated.
An official on Thursday said that 15 more people tested positive for Coronavirus in Kashmir division while three new cases were reported from Jammu. “Shopian recorded the highest number of four new COVID-19 cases followed by Pulwama with three cases,” he said, adding two persons each were tested positive from Srinagar and Bandipora.
He said Anantnag and Baramulla witnessed one new case each. “Two cases were recorded in Jammu and one from Udhampur,” he added.
With 18 new cases, he said the total number of infected persons in J&K has risen to 793. “Out of these, 725 are in Kashmir and 68 are in Jammu,” he said.
He said the total active positive cases in the UT stand at 449, including 435 from Kashmir and 14 from Jammu.
He said 13 COVID-19 patients from Kashmir discharged on Thursday after being treated successfully. “As many as 335 positive patients were treated and discharged successfully so far,” he said.
Last week, 178 new people, including 174 from Kashmir and four from Jammu, tested for the virus this week in J&K.
An alarming number of 168 people were tested positive for the infection April 20 to April 26. 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. An 80-year-old woman died in a hospital in Srinagar on April 28 due to the infection.