J&K recorded the biggest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases with 177 persons, including 125 from Kashmir and 52 from Jammu, testing positive for the disease on Saturday, taking the total number of infected persons in the Union territory to 2341.
Of the 177 new positive cases, 77, including 13 from Srinagar, are people, who have recently returned from outside J&K.
Meanwhile, 28 people have lost their lives due to the infection in the Union Territory, where 33 positive patients were discharged from hospitals after being treated successfully.
An official on Saturday said that 125 more people tested positive for Coronavirus in Kashmir division while 52 new cases were reported from Jammu. “Baramulla recorded the highest number of 40 new COVID-19 cases followed by Srinagar with 26 cases,” he said, adding 19 persons tested positive for the infection in Anantnag.
“Shopian registered 16 new COVID-19 cases,” he said, adding Ramban recorded 14 and Udhampur witnessed 13 new cases.He said seven persons each tested positive in Samba while six cases each were registered Kathua and Rajouri. “Pulwama recorded five new positive cases while four persons tested positive in Kulgam,” he added.
He said only Poonch and Kishtwar recorded no new cases.With 177 new cases, he said the total number of infected persons in J&K has risen to 2341. “Out of these, 1853 are in Kashmir and 488 are in Jammu,” he said.He said the total active positive cases in the UT stand at 1405, including 1037 from Kashmir and 368 from Jammu.He said 33 COVID-19 patients from J&K were discharged on Saturday after being treated successfully. “As many as 908 positive patients were treated and discharged successfully so far,” he said.Ten districts of Jammu have reported three fatalities while 25 people have lost their lived due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.Srinagar is the worst affected district in terms of mortality rate with seven deaths due to the infection. Anantnag and Baramulla stands at number two with five deaths each while Kulgam is number three with four deaths.