Srinagar, April 25: A septuagenarian man on Saturday became the sixth COVID-19 casualty in Jammu and Kashmir where fourteen new positive cases were confirmed overnight, taking the tally of the infected patients in the J&K to 468.
The 72-year-old patient from Qazipora Tangmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died at SKIMS Bemina hospital here, making it the fifth death in Kashmir and 6th overall in J&K due to the novel coronavirus.
“He was admitted to high dependency unit. He was a pneumonia, hypertensive, AF and BCH patient,” Dr Shafa A Deva, Medical Superintendent SKIMS Bemina told a local news agency. She said the septuagenarian was admitted to the hospital, one of the exclusively COVID-19 management facilities, on April 13. “He was shifted to ICU yesterday where he died,” the doctor said.
With due compliance to the guidelines by the Ministry of Health, she said the body would be handed over to the family of the elderly man for last rites.
Meanwhile, 14 fresh cases were reported in J&K, all in Kashmir Anatnag, taking the number of COVID-19 patients in Kashmir to 411 and Jammu 57.
ACR Anantnag in his tweet confirmed the 14 positive cases. The officer in a tweet said: “Pushroo-1, Kutheir-3, Kharpora (Larnoo, Kokernag- Division)-10 .Figures aside, just remember the boundaries are too penetrable. We can guard it only by being more responsible!” there are now 468 positive cases and six of them have died—five in Kashmir and one in Jammu— while 109 patients recovered.
