2 More Covid-19 Fatalities Reported In Jammu & Kashmir, Death Toll Reaches 30

Total Coronavirus fatalities touched 30, after 2 more deaths were reported in Jammu & Kashmir. So far, Srinagar has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 deaths.

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Srinagar: A 72-year-old man with comorbidities from Doda district on Monday died of Covid-19 at GMC Jammu, taking the death toll due to the virus to 30 in Jammu and Kashmir. “He had multiple problems like COPD and heart ailments,” Medical Superintendent GMC Jammu, Dr. Dara Singh, told. He said that the test for the Covid-19 had returned positive yesterday. Earlier in the day, a 45-year-old man from the Shopian district died at SKIMS Soura. The victim, a resident of Ramnagar Shopian, was admitted to in SKIMS Soura’s Emergency at 9 P.M. on May 31 as a case of “CKD, ESRD with b/l Chest infiltrates”, Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent of SKIMS told. “The patient had AGE like illness and was in shock,” he said, adding, “after initial stabilization, the patient was shifted to Ward 2A as a suspect case of COVID-19 and his nasopharyngeal swab was taken.” He said that the patient expired at midnight. “The body was kept in a mortuary and all precautions were taken,” he said. The swab sample for the COVID-19 came positive at 2 p.m., he added. With these fatalities, the death toll due to the virus in J&K has gone up to 30. So far Srinagar district has the highest number of fatalities—7 followed by Anantnag and Baramulla with five deaths each, Kulgam has reported four while Budgam, Shopian and Jammu have two each and one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Doda and Udhampur. WATCH: 6 JeM terrorists nabbed in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam