13 more fall victim to COVID-19, J&K toll 848

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir reported 13 more COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the overall fatality count to 848 in J&K.

Among the fatalities, official sources said that eight were from Jammu division and five from Kashmir Valley.

Regarding Jammu, they said, two deaths each were reported from Jammu, Rajouri and Samba besides one each from Doda and Reasi.

Among others, the deaths from Jammu, they said include a 62-year-old man from Pathal Reasi who died two days after being admitted to GMC with “inferior wall myocardial infarction. He died at 5 AM,” a doctor at the hospital said.

A 38-year-old man from Bari Brahmana area of Samba died at 5:10 AM today, two days after he was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with Bilateral Community Acquired Pneumonia, the doctor said.

An 80-year-old man from Ustad Mohalla Jammu died at GMC, three days after he was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with hypertension, CKD and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

They said a 57-year-old man from Bahu Fort Jammu died at ASCOMS Hospital (Batra) last night and had been diagnosed with hypothyroid and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

A 62-year-old woman from Ghazipur, RS Pura, who was co-morbid and COVID positive died in GMC Jammu while a 70-year-old man from Bandrai Ganara in Kalakote tehsil of Rajouri district, who had injury after fall in the house, died in the GMC Rajouri and later tested positive for the virus.

Regarding deaths from Kashmir Valley, sources said that they include a 50-year-old from Uri Baramulla who died at a hospital here at 1:40 AM. “She was diagnosed with HTN, Hypothyroid with severe COVID Pneumonia and died due to cardiopulmonary arrest,” they said.

One of the victims from Budgam was a resident of Charar-e-Sharif while those from Srinagar include a 65-year-old woman from Batamaloo who was admitted to the SMHS Hospital on September 6 as a case of bilateral CAP and a 45-year-old from Fakir Gujri Harwan who also died at SMHS Hospital.

The other victim was a 66-year-old man from Humhama Budgam who died at SMHS Hospital this evening.

With these deaths, officials said, 848 people have succumbed to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir so far. Among them, they said, 717 were from the Valley while 131 others were from Jammu division.

Srinagar district with 246 deaths tops the list followed by Baramulla (109), Budgam (69), Pulwama (60), Anantnag (53), Kupwara (56), Jammu (75), Kulgam (40), Shopian (29), Bandipora (26), Ganderbal (25), Rajouri (14), Kathua (11), Doda (9), Samba (7), Poonch (6), Udhampur (4), Reasi (3), Kishtwar (1), and Ramban (1).