With 13 more people, including two nurses from a hospital in Srinagar, testing positive for Coronavirus on Saturday, the total number of infected people has risen to 836 in the Union Territory of J&K.
Meanwhile, four people were on Saturday discharged from hospital after being successfully treated in Jammu and Kashmir.
An official on Saturday said that 12 more people tested positive for Coronavirus in Kashmir division while one new case was reported from Jammu. “Ganderbal recorded the highest number of four new COVID-19 cases,” they said, adding two people each from Srinagar, Shopian and Kulgam were tested positive for the infection.
They said Kulgam, Pulwama and Kathua in Jammu also recorded one new COVID-19 case each.
With 13 new cases, he said the total number of infected persons in J&K has risen to 836. “Out of these, 767 are in Kashmir and 69 are in Jammu,” he said.
He said the total active positive cases in the UT stand at 459, including 446 from Kashmir and 13 from Jammu.
He said four COVID-19 patients, including three from Kashmir and one from Jammu, were discharged on Saturday after being treated successfully. “As many as 368 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.
The death toll due to the infection has surged to nine with a 34-year-old COVID-19 positive patient dying in a hospital on Thursday in the valley. 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.