Srinagar, May 12 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded the highest single-day jump in COVID-19 cases with 55 more persons, including 42 from Kashmir and 13 from Jammu testing positive, taking the total number of infected people to 934 in the Union Territory.
Meanwhile, Scores of staff members, including nurses, of Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) Srinagar on Tuesday stages a protest, alleging that the mismanagement of the administration has led to the spread of COVID-19 in the institute.
An official on Tuesday said that 42 more people tested positive for Coronavirus in Kashmir division while 13x new cases were reported from Jammu. “Kulgam recorded the highest number of 27 new COVID-19 cases followed by Kupwara with 10 cases,” he said, adding Kathua in Jammu recorded 7 new cases.
He said four persons each were tested positive for COVID-19 in Anantnag in Kashmir and Samba in Jammu. “Reasi in Jammu witnessed two new cases and one person was tested positive for the infection in Shopian in Kashmir,” he added.
With 55 new cases, he said the total number of infected persons in J&K has risen to 934. “Out of these, 844 are in Kashmir and 90 are in Jammu,” he said.
He said the total active positive cases in the UT stand at 469, including 435 from Kashmir and 34 from Jammu.
He said 28 COVID-19 patients from Kashmir were discharged on Tuesday after being treated successfully. “As many as 455 positive patients were treated and discharged successfully so far,” he said.
Last week, 160 people were tested positive for COVID-19 in J&K. As many as 178 new people, including 174 from Kashmir and four from Jammu, tested for the virus between 27 April and May 3. 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 10 with an elderly man dying on Monday due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley. The death of the elderly man comes 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 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.