Six patients die of covid-19 in J&K, toll reaches 406

Six patients die of covid-19 in J&K, toll reaches 406

Srinagar August 3(PTK)J&K on Monday reported 6 more deaths due to covid-19 taking the toll of total fatalities to 406 in UT.

Official sources said that a 62-year-old woman from Nawa Bazar area of Srinagar’s Old City died at SKIMS today.

They said a 65-year-old from SK colony Anantnag and a patient from Rawalpora Srinagar also died due to the virus.

Patient from SK Colony was diabetic, hypertensive and had bilateral pneumonia. She passed away at SMHS hospital, they added.

An official told PTK,that a 65-year-old from New Colony Sopore who died at Sub District hospital Sopore in the north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.

The elderly man had tested positive after his rapid antigen test was done at Bandipora on July 31, he said.

Meanwhile, an 85-year-old man from Safa Kadal Srinagar died at SKIMS Soura while a 60-year-old man from Simbal Morh in Miran Sahib area of Jammu tested positive last evening, nearly 24 hours after his death in the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu, the sources added.(PTK)