Covid-19:- Lady from Srinagar tests positive a day after her death, death toll rises to 20

SRINAGAR  MAY(PTK),A 80 year old lady from Srinagar tests positive for covid-19 tests a day after her death at SMHS hospital, officials said on Thursday.

Dr Salim Khan Nodal officer for covid-19 at GMC Srinagar said that a 80 year old lady from Usmania colony Bemina Srinagar who died at SMHS on Wednesday tested positive for covid-19 on Thursday.

He said that she was admitted with bilateral pneumonia and hypertension on 19 May and was kept in isolation ward where she died on Thursday, he said, adding that her body was kept in GMC Srinagar mortuary and her reports came positive for covid-19 today.

With her death the death toll of covid-19 positive patients has reached to 20, including 18 from Kashmir and 2 from Jammu(PTK)