The death toll due to COVID-19 has risen to 85 in the Union Territory of J&K with two persons — including a 58-year-old man from Anantnag and a 65-year-old man from Pulwama — dying due to the disease in a hospital in this summer capital, official sources said on Monday.
With these deaths, 49 people have lost their lives due to infection in 18 days, and 70 people in 34 day in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases surpassing 6000-mark. 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 Saturday and Sunday.
Official sources said a 58-year-old man, a resident of Kokernag in Anantnag, was referred from Government Medical College (GMC), Anantnag to Chest Disease hospital in Srinagar after testing positive for COVID-19 last week. “The patient was on ventilator and was suffering from pneumonia,” they said.
They said death condition of the patient deteriorated and he passed away in the hospital on Monday afternoon.
They said a Pulwama resident was admitted to SHMS hospital for bilateral pneumonia, besides hypertension and diabetes. “The patient developed some complication last night and died,” they said, adding the swab test of the deceased came positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
They said the last rites of the deceased would be held in accordance with the MHA guidelines.
Ten districts of Jammu have reported 10 fatalities while 74 people have lost their lived due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.
Srinagar is the worst affected district with 19 causalities due to the disease in the UT, followed by Baramulla with 13 deaths. Shopian stands at number three with 10 deaths, followed by Kulgam with nine fatalities. Six people have lost their lives due to the infection in Budgam, Kupwara and Anantnag.
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.