Two persons, including a 74-year-old retired doctor from Srinagar and a 60-year-old Shopian resident, died due to COVID-19 in separate hospitals in this summer capital on Saturday, taking the death toll in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to 55.
With these, 19 people have lost their lives due to infection in nine days, and 40 people in 25 days in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases have surpassed 4700-mark.
Official sources said that a sexagenarian from Shopian was admitted to SHMS hospital on Thursday for bilateral pneumonia. “A sample of the patient for COVID-19 test was taken on Friday,” they said.
They said the condition of the patient deteriorated and he died on Saturday. “Hours after his death, the patent was tested positive for COVID-19,” they added.
They said a 74-year-old patient was admitted to S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Bemina on June 2 after testing positive for COVID-19. “The patient was suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),” they said, adding the retired doctor from Parraypora in Srinagar on Ventilator.
However, they said the condition of the patient deteriorated and he passed away this morning.
They said that the last rites of the deceased would be done in accordance with MHA guidelines.
Ten districts of Jammu have reported six fatalities while 49 people have lost their lived due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.
With these fatalities, the death toll has risen to 13 in Srinagar, which is the worst affected district in terms of causality due to the disease in the UT, while the number has swelled to five in Shopian. Baramulla with 10 fatalities stand at number two, followed by Kulgam with eight deaths while five people each have lost their lives due to the infection in Anantnag and Shopian.
A 62-year-old woman, a resident of Kulgam, died due to COVID-19 in a hospital in this summer capital on Thursday. On Friday, border district of Rajouri recorded the first COVID-19 fatality with 65-year-old man dying due to the infection at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu.
Five people — including two 70-year-old men, 52-year-old auto-driver and 31-year-old man — died due to COVID-19 on Tuesday in Kashmir. On Monday, Kashmir valley recorded five deaths, including that of a CRPF jawan, due to COVID-19. The deceased included the 40-year-old CRPF jawan from Uttar Pradesh, 55-year-old man from Pampore, 65-year-old man from Handwara, 35-year-old man from Srinagar and 70-year-old man from Baramulla.
A non-local tailor, a resident of Kolkata, was tested positive for COVID-19 on June 7, hours after he died in a local hospital in Srinagar. Three people, including three persons from Kashmir and 62-year-old woman from Jammu, died due to COVID-19 on June 6.
A 65-year-old woman from Srinagar, who died at a hospital in this summer capital on Thursday evening, tested positive for COVID-19 on June 5. A 60-year-old man from Srinagar died due to COVID-19 at a hospital in this summer capital on June 4. An 86-year-old man from north Kashmir district of Baramulla tested positive for COVID-19, five days after he passed away in a health centre in the valley on June 3. Five persons, including four from Kashmir and one from Jammu, died due to COVID-19 in the UT on June 1.
A 70-year-old man, a resident of Shopian, died due to COVID-19 at SHMS hospital in Srinagar on May 28, when a 55-year-old man, a resident of Khanpora in Baramulla, tested positive for COVID-19 days after he died at SHMS hospital.
Two people, including a 70-year-old man from Anantnag and 55-year-old man from Srinagar, died due to COVID-19 in Kashmir valley on May 27.
On May 26, a 90-year-old man from Kulgam, who was tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, died at a hospital in Srinagar.
On May 23, a 55-year-old Anantnag woman, who was tested positive for COVID-19, died in a hospital in the summer capital, Srinagar. A 65-year-old woman from Kulgam in Kashmir and 63-year-old man from Jammu tested positive for COVID-19 after their deaths on May 22.
Two elderly women, an 80-year-old from Srinagar and 40-year-old from Budgam, died in separate hospitals due to COVID-19 in the summer capital, Srinagar on May 21. On May 18, three people — including a 65-year-old woman from Kulgam, 75-year-old man and 75-year old woman from Kokernag in Anantnag – died due to COVID-19 in Chest Disease hospital, Srinagar.
A 29-year-old woman, a resident of Habba Kadal in the city, died at Chest Disease hospital, Srinagar, on May 17. Five doctors, including four of them who treated 29-year-old woman patient, tested positive for COVID-19 in the summer capital, Srinagar on May 18.
An elderly man, who died in a hospital in the summer capital, Srinagar on May 16, tested positive for COVID-19. Another elderly man had died on May 13 in Jammu due to COVID-19.
An elderly man died on May 11 due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley. The death of the elderly man had come just days after his son became the youngest victim of the infection 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 in April, 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.