SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir reported two more deaths attributed to COVID-19, taking the fatality count due to the virus to 238 in J&K.
Quoting official sources news agency GNS reported that one of the victims was an 84-year-old man from Baramulla and other a 50-year-old woman from Rajouri district.
Regarding the octogenarian, they said, he was admitted to SKIMS Soura on July 16 as a case of “bilateral CAP (community-acquired pneumonia) inward 3A.” “The patient expired at 11:15 p.m.,” a senior doctor at SKIMS said.
As regards the quinquagenarian woman from Rajouri, a senior doctor at GMC Jammu said she was admitted to the hospital on July 16. “She passed away at 2 a.m.,” the doctor added.
With these deaths, 219 people in Kashmir and 19 in Jammu have died so far due to the COVID-19.
Srinagar district with 59 deaths has the highest fatalities followed by Baramulla (49), Kulgam (24), 18 each in Shopian, Anantnag and Budgam, Kupwara (13), 11 each in Jammu and Pulwama, Bandipora (5), Ganderbal (4), two each in Rajouri and Doda and one each in Poonch, Udhampur, and Kathua.
