Srinagar: Two more COVID-19 positive patients died in Kashmir during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll due to the disease in the union territory to 85, officials said on Monday.
A 65-year-old man from Pulwama district of south Kashmir, was suffering from bilateral pneumonia, hypertension and diabetes. He died at SMHS hospital on Sunday night, they said.
“His COVID-19 test results came back positive this morning,” they added.
The second patient, a 58-year-old man from Anantnag district’s Kokernag area, died this afternoon at Chest Diseases Hospital, according to the officials.
They said he had been shifted to the hospital from Government Medical College, Anantnag on June 19 after he tested positive for COVID-19.
With these two deaths, the number of fatalities due to COVID-19 has risen to 85 in Jammu and Kashmir, the officials said.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir recorded 132 fresh COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking the number of people infected with the coronavirus to 6,088 in the Union Territory, officials said.
They said while 10 of the fresh cases were from the Jammu region, 122 were from the Valley.
The fresh cases include 25 persons who returned to the Union Territory recently.
The officials said six districts — Ganderbal, Kishtwar, Reasi, Samba, Udhampur and Ramban — had no fresh case.
The number of people infected with the deadly virus now stands at 6,088 in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Of them, 4,712 are in Kashmir, while 1,376 are in the Jammu region,” an official said.
The Union Territory has so far witnessed 85 deaths due to the disease.
