SRINAGAR: A 70-year-old patient died on Friday due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley, taking the total number of deaths due to the infection to five in the Union Territory of J&K.
Official sources said that the elderly patient, who was tested positive earlier this month, died at S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) hospital, Bemina on Friday afternoon.
They said the patient, a resident of Sopore, was admitted about a week back in the hospital.
J&K recorded first death due to COVID-19 on March 25, when a 65-year-old man from Hyderpora died due to the infection at Chest Disease Hospital. Then, on March 29, a 50-year-old man, a resident of Tangmarg, passed away at CD hospital.
Earlier this month, a 54-year-old Bandipora resident, who had tested positive for the infection, died at SMHS hospital. Later on April 8, a 61-year-old woman from Udhampur died at Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu.
The total number of COVID-19 positive cases has cross 300-mark while over three dozen patients have been treated and discharged so far in J&K.
Meanwhile, restrictions on movement and assembly of people to curtail the spread of Coronavirus completed one month even as the number of ‘Red Zones’ has swelled to 80 in Kashmir valley, where Rapid Anti-Body testing will be soon introduced to get instant results in containment areas. (AGENCIES)
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