Six more die due to COVID-19, J&K toll 341

Six more people died due to covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir since last night, officials said on Wednesday.

They said that two deaths were reported at SMHS hospital here this morning and include a 52-year-old woman from Budgam and a 75-year-old man from Wazirbagh Srinagar. “Both had comorbidities with Community Acquired Pneumonia,” a senior doctor at the hospital told GNS.

The quinquagenarian was admitted on July 23 and the septuagenarian on July 27 respectively, the doctor said.

Earlier, a 65-year-old woman from Mattan Anantnag died at SKIMS Soura this morning. “She was suffering from pneumonia and hypertension among other ailments,” a senior doctor at SKIMS told GNS.

The sexagenarian’s death was the second fatality in less than twelve hours in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district as a 50-year-old man from Katsoo Pahalgam died at SMHS Hospital here. Having “Bilateral Pneumonia”, the quinquagenarian was admitted on July 27 and died on the same day. His test returned positive later, officials said.