The death toll due to COVID-19 has risen to 100 in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir with four more persons, including three from the valley and one from Jammu, dying due to the disease on Tuesday.
With this death, 64 people have lost their lives due to infection in 26 days, and 85 people in 42 day in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases have surpassed 7300-mark.
Official sources said that a 23-year-old patent from Shopian with serious head injury was shifted from SHMS hospital to Chest Disease hospital after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. “The health condition of the patient deteriorated and he died on Tuesday afternoon,” they said.
They said a 65-year-old woman from Barzulla in Srinagar, who was tested positive for COVID-19, also died in CD hospital on Tuesday. “The woman, who was on a ventilator, had diabetic and hypertension, besides other ailments,” they said.
They said another COVID-19 positive patient, a 52-year-old man from Baramulla, died at S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Bemina. “The woman was admitted to the hospital on Saturday with bilateral Pneumonia and other ailments,” they said, adding the patient died of a massive heart attack.
Earlier in the day, an 85-year-old woman from Kathua in Jammu died due to COVID-19 in Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu.
Ten districts of Jammu have reported 12 fatalities while 88 people have lost their lived due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.
With this, Kathua district in Jammu has registered its first death due to the virus. The death toll has risen to 23 in Srinagar which is the worst affected district in terms of causalities due to COVID-19. The number has swelled to 16 in Baramulla, which stands at number two, followed by Kulgam with 13 deaths. Shopian with 12 deaths is at number four. Seven people each have lost their lives due to the infection in Budgam and Anantnag, five in Kupwara, four in Pulwama and one in Bandipora.
Two people, including a 65-year-old man from Shopian, died due to COVID-19 on Monday in the valley. Three persons, including a 70-year-old woman from Sopore, 45-year-old woman from Anantnag and 76-year-old man from Kulgam, died due to COVID-19 in Kashmir valley on June 27.
A 48-year-old woman from Srinagar died due to COVID-19 in the valley on June 24. Four persons — including a 58-year-old woman from Srinagar, 85-year-old man from Kulgam 58-year-old man from Anantnag and a 65-year-old man from Pulwama – died due to COVID-19 on June 23 and June 22. Seven persons — 40-year-old woman from Srinagar, 80-year-old woman from Kulgam, another woman from Pulwama, 65-year-old man from Budgam, a 51year-old patient from Kupwara and a Jammu resident — died due to COVID-19 on June 20 and June 21.
Four people –including a 15-day-old infant, a 79-year-old man from Srinagar and 80-year-old man from Baramulla, 80-year-old man from Shopian — died due to the disease on June 19. Eight people — including six from Kashmir and two from Jammu — died due to COVID-19 on June 17 and June 18. Four people from Kashmir valley died due to COVID-19 on June 15 and June 16. Earlier on June 14, two persons, including an 85-year-old man from Kashmir and a 69-year-old man from Jammu, died due to COVID-19.
On June 12, 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. A 62-year-old woman, a resident of Kulgam, died due to COVID-19 in a hospital in this summer capital on June 11.
Five people — including two 70-year-old men, 52-year-old auto-driver and 31-year-old man — died due to COVID-19 on June 9 in Kashmir. On June 8, 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.