4 Days After Son’s Death, Man From Srinagar Becomes Another Victim Of Covid-19; J&K Death Toll Rises To 10

A 58-year-old man from Srinagar has succumbed to Covid-19, merely 4 days after he lost his son to the deadly disease. With this, the death toll of Jammu & Kashmir has risen to 10.

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Srinagar: Four days after his young son died of the Covid-19, a 58-year-old man from the Old City of Srinagar fell to the dreaded infection, taking the death toll in Jammu and Kashmir to 10. Officials said that the man, with underlying serious comorbidities, died at the Chest Diseases hospital where he was shifted soon after his test report came out to be positive for the novel coronavirus on May 8. “He was suffering from pancreatic cancer and had other comorbidities. He died at the hospital this afternoon,” Dr. Salim Tak, Medical Superintendent CD Hospital Srinagar told. With this fatality, 10 persons have died due to the disease so far in Jammu and Kashmir, 9 of them in Kashmir and one in Jammu division. The man's death has also taken Srinagar's toll to 4, highest in any district followed by Baramulla with 3 deaths, one each in Bandipora, Anantnag and Udhampur. The 32- year-old son of the deceased had died on May 7 and he had contracted the disease while attending to his father, now dead, admitted in the Oncology department at Super Speciality Hospital Shireen Bagh. Also Watch: Watch latest updates from Corona hotspots of India