Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has so far reported eight suspected mucormycosis—black fungus—cases while one more suspected person has died, officials said on Wednesday.
Among the fresh cases, two are from Jammu, three Kathua and one each from Reasi, Srinagar and Udhampur respectively.
A 40-year-old man from Kathua reportedly died of black fungus on Wednesday. Last week a man from Kathua had died of fungus.
“The report of the suspected patient from Kathua as well as eight other patients under treatment is still awaited,” GNS quoted a health official as having said.
“Those under treatment are mostly covid-19 patients,” the official added.
The J&K government earlier this week declared the mucormycosis as epidemic disease under Section 2 of the Epidemic Disease Act 1897.