Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Hours after a 75-year-old man from south Kashmir succumbed to Covid-19 at Chest Diseases Hospital in Srinagar today, a 65-year-old woman from Kulgam district died of the disease at the same hospital, officials said.
This is the third Covid death in the past 24 hours in J&K and second since this morning.
With this, the total number of people who have died of Covid-19 infection in the J&K UT so far has reached 15; two in Jammu region and 13 in Kashmir.
Nodal officer for Covid-19 at Government Medical College Srinagar Dr Salim Khan said that that a 65-year-old female from Kulgam district who was tested positive for Covid-19 died due to cardiac arrest at CD Hospital.
He said that the patient was admitted in Surgical ICU in SMHS Hospital earlier as a case of Sub Dural Haemorrhage (SDH) and was shifted to CD Hospital after her reports came positive today.
The 75-year-old man who died earlier today was from Hillar village of Kokernag in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, the nodal officer said.
“Patient was admitted in SMHS earlier, where he was tested positive and was later shifted to CD hospital where his latest report also came as positive for Covid,” the doctor said.
Yesterday, Covid had claimed the life of a 29-year-old woman from Srinagar, who underwent multiple ENT related surgeries after being tested positive for the deadly virus.
