Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported eleven more deaths due to novel coronavirus during past 24 hours, taking the fatality count to 1591, officials said on Sunday.
Seven victims, who succumbed to virus belong to Kashmir Valley, while four others to Jammu region, the officials added.
Five victims were from Srinagar and one each from Budgam and Ganderbal districts.
A 61-year-old victim from Shalimar Srinagar died a fortnight after he was admitted to SKIMS Bemina, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients in the Valley.
A 70-year-old woman from Bemina Srinagar, also died at the same hospital, four days after being admitted there, officials said.
A 75-year-old woman from Draigam Budgam died three days after being admitted with bilateral Community Acquired Pneumonia at SMHS hospital on November 12.
A 70-year-old woman from Lal Bazar died two days after admitted to CD hospital, also among exclusive facilities for the management of covid-19 patients.
Three other persons died at SKIMS Soura hospital. The victims include a 55-year-old woman from Lalbazar who succumbed to the virus twelve days after being admitted to the tertiary care hospital; a 62-year-old man from Khrew Srinagar who was admitted on November 8 and a 50-year-old man from Kachan Ganderbal who died a week after he was admitted. The victims from Jammu belonged to the winter capital.
Srinagar district with 396 deaths tops the fatality list followed by Jammu (280), Baramulla (157), Budgam (97), Pulwama (84), Kupwara (78), Anantnag (75), Doda (50), Rajouri (48), Kulgam (48), Bandipora(48), Shopian (36), Ganderbal (37), Udhampur (35), Kathua (33), Samba (25), Poonch (22), Ramban (18), Kishtwar(16), and Reasi (8).