COVID-19: Man from north Kashmir passes away, toll 6 in J-K
Srinagar: The death toll due to coronavirus rose to six in Jammu and Kashmir after one more patient died of the infection on Saturday morning.
Coordinator for COVID-19 at JVC SKIMS, Bemina, Dr Nouman Nazir told that an elderly COVID-19 patient from Tangmarg area of Baramulla, north Kashmir, died at the hospital in Srinagar on Saturday morning. He added that the patient was admitted in the hospital on 13 April this month.
Jammu and Kashmir had recorded first death due to COIVD-19 on 25 March when a 65-year-old Tableegi Jamaat associate from Hyderpora succumbed to the infection at the CD hospital.
Then, on 29 March, a 50-year-old man from Tangmarg area had passed away at the CD hospital.
Earlier this month, a 54-year-old patient, from Bandipora, had died at the SMHS hospital.
Later on 8 April, a 61-year-old lady from Udhampur died at the GMC, Jammu. Then a 70-year-old man from Armpora Sopore died at Chest Disease hospital.
The number of Covid-19 positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir has now surged past 400-mark with five deaths reported so far. (KNT)
