The death toll due to COVID-19 has risen to 71 in the Union Territory of J&K with seven people, including five from Kashmir and two from Jammu, dying due to the disease during the last 24 hours.
With this death, 35 people have lost their lives due to infection in 14 days, and 56 people in last one month in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases have surpassed 5400-mark.
Official sources said that an 80-year-old man from Nawabazar in Srinagar was admitted to SHMS hospital on Tuesday for bilateral pneumonia besides other underlying ailments, including Hypertension. “The patient, who was tested positive for COVID-19 died at the hospital on Thursday morning,” they said.
They said another patient, a 65-year-old man from Shopian, who was also tested positive for COVID-19, died at the hospital on Thursday morning.
They said a 65-year-old man, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Jammu on Wednesday night. “The patient, a resident of Bohri area in Jammu, had returned from New Delhi along with three family members recently,” they said.
They said a 68-year-old man, who had tested positive for COVID-19, belonging to Kote Garhi in Akhnoor, died at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu.
They said three more COVID-19 positive patients — including 70-year-old from Budgam, 65-year-old from Batamaloo and 70-year-old patient from Baramulla — died in the valley late on Wednesday evening.
With these fatalities, the death toll has risen to 16 in Srinagar, which is the worst affected district in terms of causalities due to the disease in the UT. The toll has risen to 12 in Baramulla. Shopian and Kulgam stands at number three with eight deaths. Five people each have lost their lives due to the infection in Budgam, Anantnag and Kupwara.
Ten districts of Jammu have reported nine fatalities while 62 people have lost their lived due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.
Four peple from Kashmir valley died due to COVID-19 in the first two days of this week. 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.