A coronavirus patient, undergoing treatment at Chest Disease hospital in Dalgate area of Srinagar, died early morning on Sunday taking the death toll in Jammu & Kashmir to two. Five more suspected cases tested positive on Sunday, official sources said.
According to Jammu & Kashmir Government spokesman, Rohit Kansal, the second death due to Covid-19 was reported early Sunday morning. He said, “5 more positives cases confirmed in Kashmir -2 from Srinagar, 2 Budgam, 1 Baramulla”.
So far, 38 cases have tested positive in Jammu & Kashmir.
According to official sources, the deceased hailed from Tangmarg area of North Kashmir's Baramulla district.
Though he had no foreign travel history but he came in contact with those who had returned from Saudi Arabia. The deceased patient also had a history of liver ailment and was put on ventilator support late Saturday evening but he breathed his last in the wee hours around 4.00 a.m.
His last rights were performed in his native village where only handful of family members were allowed by the district authorities. Three cases from Udhampur district of Jammu province, tested positive on saturday evening, were currently isolated in the Government medical college hospital in Jammu. Two among them had visited Indonesia and the third one had visited Ludhiana. The district authorities in Udhampur have identified their contacts and quarantined them. Meanwhile, restrictions on the movement and assembly of people in Jammu and Kashmir were intensified on Sunday. Workers returning home from neighboring states of Punjab, Himanchal Pradesh and Haryana were shifted to quarantine centres in Kathua and Samba.