The Union Territory of J&K is set to record 50,000 coronavirus cases on Friday after it recorded more than 1,000 cases for the eight day in sucession taking the tally to 49,134, while 13 more covid-19 patients succumbed to the virus on Thursday.
With 1.592 fresh cases detected on Thursday the active positive cases in the region stood at 14074.
This is the second biggest single-day spike in new infections in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Union Territory had recorded its sharpest spike of 1,617 fresh cases on Wednesday.
According to the media bulletin, out of 13 deaths, eight of these were reported from Jammu and five from the Kashmir Valley.
With this, the death toll due to the disease has risen to 845. Meanwhile, out of 1592 freeh cases, 770 were reported from the Jammu region and 822 from the Kashmir Valley.
Jammu district reported the highest number of fresh cases at 521, followed by 218 in Srinagar district, the media bulletin said. Jammu district has the highest number of 4783 active cases followed by Srinagar which is treating 1637 active cases.
There are 14,074 active cases of the coronavirus in the union territory, while 34,215 patients have recovered so far.