Srinagar: A 70-year-old woman from central Kashmir’s Budgam district, who had tested positive for the novel coranavirus few days ago, died at a hospital here on Thursday. Her death has taken the overall toll due to the disease in Jammu and Kashmir to 19.
The woman, a resident of Parisabad Budgam, died at the CD hospital, one of the facilities exclusively meant for the management of the Covid-91 patients.
“She was initially admitted in SMHS Hospital on May 15 and tested positive for COVID. She was shifted to CD Hospital Srinagar on May 18 with restrictive lung disease and COVID pneumonia,” Dr. Salim Khan, nodal officer for COVID-19 at the Government Medical College, Srinagar said. “She Died around noon in ICU of CD Hospital after sudden cardiac arrest,” he added.
With her death, the toll due to the coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 19—17 from Kashmir and 2 from Jammu division.
With the septuagenarian’s death, Budgam now has two deaths due to the disease. Srinagar district has reported 5 of the deaths, highest in any district, followed by Baramulla 4, Anantnag 4, Budagm 2 while one death each has been reported in Bandipora, Kulgam, Udhampur, and Jammu.
