Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported 17 more Covid-19 deaths in past 24 hours, taking the fatality count closer to 900-mark.
Nine infected persons died due to the virus in Jammu, eight other victims were residents of Kashmir, officials said.
Jammu deaths include a 63-year-old man from Digiana Camp, a 70-year-old from C. Kana Chak Jammu, a 62-year-old from Muthi Jammu, a woman resident of Upper Roup Nagar, 50-year-old from Gorkh Nagar and a 60-year-old from Greater Kalaish.
Among the victims from Kashmir Valley include two residents from Budgam and Pulwama while one each from Srinagar, Kupwara, Bandipora and Ganderbal.
Two of the deaths in the Valley were reported from SKIMS Soura and a 70-year-old man from Lalbazar Srinagar, who was admitted on September 13 and diagnosed with “bilateral pneumonia, hypertension, T2DM and CKD.”
“He suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest,” said a doctor.
The other victim was a 70-year-old woman from Lalpura Kunzar Tangmarg Baramulla who was admitted on September 8 and was diagnosed with “HTN with OLD STROKE with Severe Covid Pneumonia.”
The victim from Kupwara was a 70-year-old woman from Hyhama, who was admitted to SMHS hospital on September 10 and diagnosed as a case of bilateral community acquired pneumonia, officials said.
A 90-year-old woman from Ganderbal died at her home, two hours after she tested positive.
“She was contact of a positive person. Her sample was taken and she died after two hours after her test report came out positive for the virus.”
The other victims were two residents of Budgam and Pulwama, officials said. Monday’s deaths took the fatality count to 897 in Jammu and Kashmir.
