Two elderly women died in separate hospitals due to COVID-19 in the summer capital, Srinagar on Thursday, taking the death toll due to the infection in the Union Territory of J&K to 20.
With these, nine people have death due to COVID-19 in five days in the valley. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 cases continue to rise unabated with the total number of infected people in the Union Territory surpassing 1400.
Official sources said that an 80-year-old woman, a resident of Usmania Colony Bemina, was admitted to SHMS hospital on Tuesday with bilateral pneumonia and hypertension. “The woman died last evening,” they said, adding the test result of the woman came positive for COVID-19 on Thursday afternoon.
They said another elderly woman, a resident of Parisabad in Budgam, was admitted to SHMS hospital on May 15. “After testing positive for COVID-19, the woman was shifted to Chest Disease Hospital on May 18,” they said, adding she was suffering from Restrictive Lung disease and pneumonia.
They said the woman died after suffering a massive heart attack on Thursday at CD hospital. The death of the woman in Budgam comes just two days after a 40-year-old woman, a resident of Bijbehera in Anantnag, died due to the infection at S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), where a Baramulla resident, who was a COVID-19 positive patient, passed away on Tuesday.
They said the last rites of both the elderly women will be done in accordance with the MHA guidelines.
With these two deaths, the toll in Budgam has risen to two, while the mortality rate has risen to six in Srinagar, which is the worst affected district in terms of death due to COVID-19. Baramulla and Anantnag stand at number two in terms of mortality rate with four deaths each.
On Monday, 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 Monday.
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.
Earlier last week, 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 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.