• About us
  • Contact us
  • Our team
  • Terms of Service
Friday, August 8, 2025
Kashmir Images - Latest News Update
Epaper
  • TOP NEWS
  • CITY & TOWNS
  • LOCAL
  • BUSINESS
  • NATION
  • WORLD
  • SPORTS
  • OPINION
    • EDITORIAL
    • ON HERITAGE
    • CREATIVE BEATS
    • INTERALIA
    • WIDE ANGLE
    • OTHER VIEW
    • ART SPACE
  • Photo Gallery
  • CARTOON
  • EPAPER
No Result
View All Result
Kashmir Images - Latest News Update
No Result
View All Result
Home Latest News

Covid-19: 65-Year-old man tests positive after death, toll 101

KI News by KI News
June 30, 2020
in Latest News
A A
0
India not out of woods; needs to exponentially ramp up tests: Experts on COVID-19 pandemic
FacebookTwitterWhatsapp

Srinagar: Hours after his death, a 65-year-old man from Qamarwari area of Srinagar tested positive for the novel coronavirus, taking the overall fatality count due to the virus in J&K to 101.

Official sources told GNS that man died today at 9:30 a.m. and his swab sample returned positive at the CD diagnostic laboratory in the afternoon.
Deceased’s son told GNS that the sexagenarian was admitted to the SHMS hospital’s isolation ward yesterday.
“He complained chest related problem and his oxygen level was low as such we took him to SMHS hospital on Monday afternoon. He was admitted to isolation ward and died at 9:30 a.m. today,” he said.

Related posts

SC says will consider listing of pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370

SC to hear plea on restoration of J&K’s statehood on August 14

August 8, 2025
44 killed in Peru bus accident

Hideout busted in Kishtwar; AK-47, ammunition recovered

August 8, 2025

Confirming the death, Medical Superintendent of the hospital Dr Nazir Choudhary told GNS that he was suffering from bilateral pneumonia.
Earlier four deaths took place in J&K and two of them at CD hospital here including a 23-year-old man from Shopian and a 65-year-old woman, from Bhagat Barzulla Srinagar.

Talking to GNS, Dr Salim Tak, Medical Superintendent CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of covid-19 patients said that the 23-year-old man was shifted from SHMS hospital yesterday.

“He was having head injury was in serious condition,” he said, adding, “The 65-year-old woman from Bhagat Barzulla was on ventilator. She was hypertensive, diabetic and had other ailments.”
Earlier, an 85-year-old woman from Basohli area of the Kathua district died at GMC Jammu.

The octogenarian was the first covid-19 victim in the district.
“She was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and was on oxygen since admission. She died at 7.30 a.m. today,” Dr. Nasib Chand Digra, Principal Dean Government Medical College Jammu, told GNS.

With history of travel, she was admitted to the JMC on June 25 and was on oxygen support since, a senior doctor of the hospital said.
Later in the day, a 55-year-old covid-19 positive patient from Baramulla district died at a hospital here.

A resident of Dewan Bagh Baramulla, the 55-year-old businessman was admitted to SKIMS Bemina on June 27, hospital’s Medical Superintendent Dr Shifa Deva told GNS. “He was suffering from pneumonia,” she said.
With these deaths, 100 people so far have succumbed to the virus in J&K— 89 from the Valley and 12 from Jammu division.

Srinagar district with 24 deaths has the highest fatalities followed by Baramulla (16), Kulgam (13), Shopian (12), seven each from Jammu and Budgam and Anantnag and Kupwara (5), Pulwama (four) while one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Poonch, Doda, Udhampur, Rajouri and Kathua. (GNS)

Previous Post

Recovery rate of COVID-19 patients nearing 60 per cent

Next Post

60 CRPF men, 11 Cops among 260 new covid-19 cases in J&K, tally at 7497

KI News

KI News

Kashmir Images is an English language daily newspaper published from Srinagar (J&K), India. The newspaper is one of the largest circulated English dailies of Kashmir and its hard copies reach every nook and corner of Kashmir Valley besides Jammu and Ladakh region.

Next Post
Amid spike in coronavirus cases, India boosts capacity for tougher challenges ahead

60 CRPF men, 11 Cops among 260 new covid-19 cases in J&K, tally at 7497

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

ePaper

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Our team
  • Terms of Service
E-Mailus: kashmirimages123@gmail.com

© 2024 Kashmir Images - Designed by GITS.

No Result
View All Result
  • TOP NEWS
  • CITY & TOWNS
  • LOCAL
  • BUSINESS
  • NATION
  • WORLD
  • SPORTS
  • OPINION
    • EDITORIAL
    • ON HERITAGE
    • CREATIVE BEATS
    • INTERALIA
    • WIDE ANGLE
    • OTHER VIEW
    • ART SPACE
  • Photo Gallery
  • CARTOON
  • EPAPER

© 2024 Kashmir Images - Designed by GITS.