One more death due to Covid-19 was reported from Jammu district on Wednesday after test reports of a patient, who was admitted in the Government Medical College hospital late Tuesday night, tested positive posthumously while 37 fresh cases were detected across Jammu & Kashmir taking the total tally to 971 cases.
The total death toll due to Covid -19 in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up to 11. So far, nine deaths have been reported from Kashmir and two from Jammu division.
Out of these 37 fresh cases, Kashmir valley recorded 30 cases while Jammu division recorded 7 new cases of coronavirus. 11 patients were discharged from the hospitals, 2 from Jammu and 9 from Kashmir division. On Wednesday, district Anantnag recorded 18 fresh cases, Budgam 7 while 4 cases were reported from Kathua and 3 from Jammu.
Meanwhile, panic gripped among the hospital authorities in Jammu especially among those who had handled the patient in the emergency department before the patient breathed his last. Apparently, the patient had no travel history but official sources claimed his son had returned from New Delhi recently. The district authorities have launched contact tracing exercise and sealed the area to prevent spread of coronavirus in the vicinity.
On the other hand, the hospital premises witnessed high voltage drama when the family members of the deceased patient were denied ambulance facility to ferry his dead body to the cremation ground.