66-year-old man from Srinagar dies of covid-19, J&K toll 470
Nadeem Nadu
Srinagar, Aug 09 : A 66-year-old man from Lal Bazar area of this central Kashmir’s Srinagar district becomes another victim of covid-19, fifth since overnight and 470th so far in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.
They said that the sexagenarian, a resident of Qadam-e-Lane Lal Bazar, was suffering from pneumonia and died at SKIMS Soura.
Earlier, a senior doctor and three other persons succumbed to the virus. Officials said that the 45-year-old doctor, a resident of Konibal Pampore who was admitted at SKIMS Soura for sometime died at around 6:15 a.m.
Meanwhile, a 65-year-old woman from Tangmarg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died at the tertiary care hospital. Official source told GNS that she was having underlying ailments and had recently tested positive for the pestilence.
A 70-year-old man from Budgam who was battling cancer and had been operated recently died at SKIMS Bemina.
“He had metastasis and was admitted to the hospital recently,” a doctor at the hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of covid-19 patients in Kashmir valley.
Also, a 70-year-old woman from Pattan area of the Baramulla district who was suffering from “multiple problems” and had tested positive for covid-19 recently died at SMHS hospital here.
Admitted on August 8, the woman was suffering from “T2DM, hypertension and bilateral pneumonia,” they said.
With these deaths, officials said, 469 people have died duo to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir so far. Among them, they said, 435 were from the Valley while 34 others from Jammu division.
Srinagar district with 150 deaths tops the list followed by Baramulla (82), Budgam (35), Anantnag (32), Kulgam (30), Pulwama (30), Kupwara (27), Shopian (24), Jammu (23), Bandipora (18), Ganderbal (7), two each in Rajouri, Doda and Udhampur besides one each in Ramban, Samba, Poonch, and Kathua. (GNS)
