Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported second death due to covid-19 after an 85-year-old from Kupwara district died at a hospital here on Sunday.
Official sources said that the octogenarian was on Saturday shifted from SMHS hospital to CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients in the Valley.
“He was 85-year-old, a known case of chronic kidney disease. He was shifted from SMHS hospital yesterday. He was already positive for the covid-19,” Dr Salim Tak, medical superintendent CD hospital, said.
Earlier, a 69-year-old man from Gandhi Nagar died at Government Medical College Jammu, sixteen days after he had tested positive for novel coronavirus.
Dr. Nasib Chand Digra, Principal GMC Jammu, said that the elderly man had comorbidities like hypertension, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Ashthma. “He had severe sepsis and died around midnight (1:30 a.m.),” he added. A known businessman, the elderly was admitted to the hospital on May 29.
With the fatalities, 59 people have succumbed to the virus in J&K—Seven from Jammu and 52 from Valley. So far Srinagar district with 14 deaths has the highest fatalities followed by Baramulla 11, Kulgam eight, Anantnag six, five in Shopian, four each in Jammu and Kupwara, two each in Pulwama and Budgam while one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Doda, Udhampur and Rajouri.
