Srinagar: Two COVID-19 patients died in Kashmir during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities in the union territory to 87, officials said on Tuesday.
An 85-year-old man, from Kulgam district of south Kashmir, was suffering from heart block and hypertension. He died at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura , they said.
A 58-year-old woman from Srinagar district’s Natipora area died late last night at Chest Diseases Hospital, the officials said.
She was suffering from pneumonia, diabetes and hypertension, they said.
With these, the number of COVID-19 related fatalities in the union territory has risen to 87.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir recorded 148 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the virus count to 6,236 in the Union Territory, officials said.
Of the fresh cases, 20 are from the Jammu region and 128 from the Kashmir Valley, they said.
The cumulative tally of COVID-19 in Kashmir is 4,840 while that in the Jammu region is 1,396, they said.
A total of 3,642 patients have so far recovered from the infection, leaving 2,507 active COVID-19 cases in the Union Territory.
The cases detected on Tuesday included 36 people who had recently returned to the UT.
The officials said five districts — Shopian, Budgam, Kathua, Samba and Kishtwar — had no fresh case.
According to the daily media bulletin on COVID-19), out of 6236 positive cases, 2507 are active positive, 3642 have recovered and 87 have died; 10 in Jammu division and 77 in Kashmir division.
The bulletin further said that out of 319664 test results available, 313428 samples have been tested as negative till June 23, 2020.
Additionally, till date 261394 travelers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been enlisted for surveillance which included 39760 persons in home quarantine including facilities operated by government, 29 in hospital quarantine, 2507 in hospital isolation and 47088 under home surveillance. Besides, 171923 persons have completed their surveillance period.
Providing district-wise breakup, the bulletin said that Bandipora has 278 positive cases (including 5 cases reported today) with 48 active positive, 229 recovered and one death; Srinagar has 723 positive cases (including 28 cases reported today) with 477 active positive, 226 recovered, 20 deaths; Anantnag district has 614 positive cases (including 6 cases reported today), with 165 active positive, 443 recovered, 6 deaths; Baramulla has 633 positive cases (including 16 cases reported today) with 348 active positive, 271 recovered, 14 deaths; Shopian has 636 positive cases with 203 active positive, 423 recovered and 10 deaths; Kupwara has 460 positive cases (including 7 cases reported today) with 124 active positive, 331 recovered and 5 deaths; Budgam has 346 positive cases, with 192 active positive and 148 recovered cases and 6 deaths; Ganderbal has 73 positive cases (including 5 cases reported today) with 14 active positive cases and 59 recoveries; Kulgam has 709 positive cases (including 16 cases reported today), with 216 active positive and 482 recoveries and 11 deaths and Pulwama reported 368 positive cases (including 45 cases reported today) with 207 active positive cases and 157 recovered and 4 deaths.
Similarly, Jammu has 311 positive cases (including one case reported today) with 71 active positive cases and 233 recoveries and 7 deaths; Udhampur has 214 positive cases (including 2 cases reported today) with 91 active positive cases, 122 recovered and one death; Samba has 130 positive cases (including two cases reported today) with 71 active positive and 59 recoveries; Rajouri has 83 positive cases with 47 active positive cases and 35 recovered and one death; Kathua has 201 positive cases (including 5 cases reported today) with 86 active positive and 115 recovered; Kishtwar has 25 positive cases with 10 active positive cases and 15 recovered; Ramban has 213 positive cases (including 5 cases reported today) with 79 active positive and 134 recoveries; Reasi has 35 positive cases (including 3 cases reported today) with 11 active positive and 24 recovered; Poonch has 114 positive cases with 29 active positive and 85 recoveries while Doda has 70 positive cases (including two cases reported today) with 18 active positive cases and 51 recoveries and one death.
According to the bulletin, of the total 6236 positive cases in J&K 2088 have been reported as travelers while 4148 as others.
The bulletin said that the breakup represents districts from which the patients have been traced or are ordinarily residing.
