Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir today recorded its fifth Covid-19 death while 14 more people were tested positive including a Ph.D. student, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 328 in the Union Territory.
Medical Superintendent at SKIMS Bemina (JVC hospital) Dr Shifa Deva said that a 75-year-old man from Arampora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district breathed his last today, ten days after he was tested positive. “His body was sent to his home town amid proper protocol,” the doctor said. “He had a travel history as well as multiple health issues which aggravated his condition,” she said.
Officials said that among new 14 cases, nine are from Bandipora district, three from Shopian and two from Kupwara district. In the past week, more than 100 positive cases have been reported from Kashmir division alone.
Officials said that three persons who were tested positive from Shopian district include a PhD student, a management graduate and a 52-year-old woman.
As per officials figures, 78 positive cases including one death and 12 recoveries are from Srinagar, 75 including eleven recoveries and one death from Bandipora, 42 including two deaths from Baramulla, 12 including three recoveries from Budgam, 3 from Pulwama including one recovery, 17 from Shopian including two recoveries, 27 from Kupwara, 14 from Ganderbal, 4 from Kulgam and two from Anantnag in Kashmir division.
As per the daily information bulletin, 59,205 persons in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 7,631 persons have been kept under home quarantine. Besides that, 281 persons are in hospital isolation while 260 are under hospital quarantine.
According to the bulletin, 23,662 persons have completed surveillance period and 27,366 are under home surveillance. So far, results of 6,438 samples are available, the report said.
