Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Despite strict five-day lockdown in place across Kashmir, especially in summer capital Srinagar, eight more people lost their lives to coronavirus today, taking the Covid-19 death toll in the UT to 296.
The fresh deaths come despite the fact that almost entire Kashmir is under a tight lockdown announced by the administration on July 22 which remains in force till July 27.
In view of the Eid-ul-Adha that falls on August 1, the J&K administration said that markets will remain open for three days from July 28 and after the festival, the situation will be reviewed and another decision will be announced accordingly.
Officials said that eight patients, who died of Covid-19 today in J&K include a 75-year-old man from Saderbal Srinagar, a 65-year-old man from Maharaj Gunj Srinagar, a 65-year-old woman from Malaknag, Anantnag, a 58-year-old IRP Sub Inspector from Jammu, a 68-year-old woman from Sopore, a 70-year-old male from Rainawari Srinagar, a 75-year-old lady from Peerbagh Srinagar and a 60-year-old male patient from Khanyar, Srinagar.
An official at SKIMS said that a patient from Saderbal, Srinagar was admitted on July 8 with multiple ailments and he died this morning. Hospital sources at SMHS said that a 65-year-old patient from Maharaj Gunj, presently living at Kraltang, Rajouri Kadal, who was admitted on July 20 with bilateral Pneumonia and was tested positive on 22 July, also died today.
They said that a patient from Sopore who was admitted on July 21 with bilateral Pneumonia died at SMHS yesterday and was tested positive for COVID-19 today.
They further added that a 60-year-old man from Khanyar who was admitted on 21 July with community-acquired pneumonia died last evening and was tested positive on Friday.
A health official at GMC Anantnag said that a 65-year-old woman from Malaknag, Anantnag who was admitted on July 22 died at GMC Anantnag on Friday morning.
He said the patient was suffering from hypertension, pneumonia and other ailments.
Officials from GMC Jammu said that a 58-year-old Indian Reserve Police (IRP) Sub Inspector from Gandhi Nagar who was admitted on July 22 and tested positive for the virus, breathed his last at GMC today.
An official at SKIMS Bemina (JVC) said that a 75-year-old lady from Peerbagh, Srinagar who was admitted on July 14 after testing positive for COVID-19 died today.
A 70-year old man from Rainawari who was tested positive for COVID-19, also died hours after he was admitted at CD hospital.
With eight more deaths, the death toll due to COVID-19 has reached 296 in J&K including 275 from Kashmir and 21 from Jammu.
-ARK
