Srinagar: A quinquagenarian man who tested positive for coronavirus disease and having an underlying liver ailment died at a hospital in Srinagar here, making it the second fatality due to the pathogen in Kashmir Valley, reports said.
A resident of Tangmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, the 52-year-old man had been put on a ventilator at CD hospital late last night and died around two hours before the crack of dawn, reports and officials added.
He had no travel history even to outside Valley and is believed that he might have come in contact with covid-19 patients.
In all, 33 persons have tested positive for the COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir. 24 of them are in Kashmir and nine in Jammu region—6 in the winter capital of the J&K and three in Rajouri district.
The Government informed that 5919 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases have been put under surveillance so far.
As per the daily Media Bulletin on novel coronavirus, 3535 persons have been kept under home quarantine (including facilities operated by Govt.) while as 227 are in hospital quarantine.
Persons who are under home surveillance stand at 1525 while as 632 persons have completed their 28-day surveillance period.
