COVID-19: 65-yr-old woman succumbs in Kashmir, toll rises to 36
Srinagar/UNI: A 65-year-old woman from Srinagar, who died at a hospital in this summer capital last evening, tested positive for COVID-19, taking the death toll due to the infection in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to 36.
With this, 14 persons have lost their lives due to the infection during the last 10 days and 22 people in 18 days in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases have surpassed 2,900 mark.
Official sources said that the woman, a resident of Batamaloo, was admitted to SHMS hospital on Thursday morning for acute pneumonia. “The health condition of the elderly woman deteriorated in the evening and the patient died,” they said.
They said the swab sample was sent to the lab for testing, which came out positive. “The last rites of the woman would be held in accordance with MHA guidelines,” they added.
Ten districts of Jammu have reported four fatalities while 32 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in ten districts of Kashmir.
With this death, the deadly virus has claimed nine lives in Srinagar, making it the worst affected district in terms of highest number of causality due to the disease followed Baramulla with seven fatalities. Anantnag stands at number three with five deaths and Kulgam at number four with four fatalities.
A 60-year-old man from Srinagar succumbed at a hospital in this summer capital on Thursday.
An 86-year-old man from north Kashmir district of Baramulla tested positive, five days after he passed away in a health centre in the valley on Wednesday.
Five persons, including four from Kashmir and one from Jammu, died due to Corona in the UT on Monday.
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