COVID-19: More deaths reported as J&K toll reaches 107

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday reported three more deaths due to COVID-19 in Kashmir Valley. These deaths take the fatality count due to the virus to 107 in J&K.

Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent of SKIMS Soura, said 50-year-old woman from Kandi Kupwara died at the hospital today.

“The patient was admitted on June 30 as a case of carcinoma of unknown origin with Right l/l dvt with anemia,” he said, adding, “The patient had undergone peritoneal biopsy and developed postoperative sepsis. She was admitted in medical observation on June 27 with complaints of vomiting and hematochezia.”

He said that COVID-19 swab was taken during that admission which came out positive following which the patient was shifted to IDB. “She expired on at 05:30 PM because of cardiopulmonary arrest.”

Meanwhile, a 45-year-old man from Undoo Shangus Anantnag died “due to cardiopulmonary arrest” at 6 PM at the same hospital.

Admitted on June 28, Professor Jan said patient was “k/c/o AML.” He came out positive for COVID-19 on June 28.

Earlier, a 50-year-old woman from Eidgah area of Srinagar died at tertiary care hospital, twelve days after testing positive for the novel coronavirus.

With the deaths, 107 people so far have succumbed to the virus in J&K— 94 from the Valley and 13 from Jammu division.

Srinagar district with 25 deaths has the highest fatalities followed by Baramulla (17), Kulgam (13), Shopian (12), Anantnag (9), eight each from Jammu and Budgam, Kupwara (6), Pulwama (four) while one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Poonch, Doda, Udhampur, Rajouri and Kathua.