Covid-19: J&K reports 6 deaths; 137 fresh cases
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded 137 new COVID-19 cases, while six deaths took place in the last 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 1,21,923 and the death toll to 1,897, officials said.
Of the fresh cases, 71 were from Jammu division and 66 from Kashmir division of the Union territory, they said.
The officials said Jammu district recorded the highest with 49 cases followed by 22 in Srinagar district.
While five districts — Kulgam, Poonch, Rajouri, Shopian and Reasi — did not report any fresh cases, 11 other districts had fresh cases in single digits.
Besides Jammu and Srinagar, Ganderbal and Pulwama were the only districts to report more than 10 cases in the past 24 hours.
The number of active cases dropped to 2,600 in the UT, while 1,17,426 patients have recovered so far, the officials said.
Meanwhile, the UT reported six COVID-19 deaths — five from Jammu division and one from Kashmir valley — in the last 24 hours.
Providing district-wise breakup, the officials said that Srinagar has 25503 positive cases (including 22 cases reported today) with 497 Active Positive, 24556 recovered (including 61 cases recovered today), 450 deaths; Baramulla has 8009 positive cases (including 05 cases reported today) with 110 Active Positive, 7727 recovered (including 15 cases recovered today), 172 deaths; Budgam reported 7646 positive cases (including 01case reported today) with 103 active positive cases, 7433 recovered (including 07 cases recovered today), 110 deaths; Kupwara has 5573 positive cases (including 02 cases reported today) with 111 Active Positive, 5370 recoveries (including 13 cases recovered today), 92 deaths; Pulwama has 5618 positive cases (including 18 cases reported today) with 169 Active Positive, 5361 recovered and 88 deaths; Anantnag district has 4828 positive cases (including 05 cases reported today) with 106 Active Positive, 4639 recovered (including 07 cases recovered today), 83 deaths; Bandipora has 4662 positive cases (including 02 cases reported today) with 53 Active Positive and 4549 recoveries(including 07 cases recovered today), 60 deaths; Ganderbal has 4511 positive cases (including 11 cases reported today) with 92 Active Positive, 4375 recoveries and 44 deaths; Kulgam has 2666 positive cases with 57 Active Positive, 2556 recoveries and 53 deaths while as Shopian has 2524 positive cases 107 active positive cases, 2378 recoveries and 39 deaths.
They said that in Jammu division, Jammu district has 24107 positive cases (including 49 cases reported today) with 654 active positive cases, 23092 recoveries (including 68 cases recovered today), 361 deaths; Udhampur has 4103 positive cases (including 07 cases reported today) with 49 active positive cases, 3997 recovered (including 10 cases recovered today ) and 57 deaths; Rajouri has 3846 positive cases with 116 active positive, 3676 recoveries (including 12 cases recovered today) and 54 deaths; Doda has 3402 positive cases (including 04 cases reported today) with 45 Active positive, 3293 recovered (including 04 cases recovered today) and 64 deaths; Kathua has 3219 positive cases (including 05 cases reported today) with 43 active positive cases, 3127 recovered (including 04 cases recovered today) and 49 deaths; Kishtwar has 2724 positive cases (including 02 cases reported today) with 14 Active Positive, 2688 recoveries and 22 deaths; Samba has 2777 positive cases (including 02 cases reported today) with 204 active positive cases, 2534 recoveries and 39 deaths; Poonch has 2462 positive cases with 34 active positive, 2404 recoveries (including 07 cases recovered today)and 24 deaths; Ramban has 2115 positive cases (including 02cases reported today) with 24 active positive, 2070 recoveriesand 21 deaths while Reasi has 1628 positive cases with 12 active positive cases, 1601 recoveriesand 15 deaths.
