Srinagar, June 08 (KNO): Jammu and Kashmir on Monday recorded five COVID deaths including a CRPF man who was posted in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district and woman from Baramulla taking the number of total deaths due to pandemic to 46 in the UT.
Late evening, today, a woman, who was admitted at SMHS hospital and tested positive for the deadly virus, breathed her last. Medical Superintendent of SMHS Dr Nazir Choudhary told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a 70-year-old woman from Baramulla was admitted at the hospital on June 6. “She had a bilateral pneumonia and had tested positive for the Covid-19. She died this evening after her condition deteriorated,” Dr Choudhary said.
Earlier, a COVID infected 55-year-old man from Pampore area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district died at SMHS hospital this afternoon. He was the fourth Covid causality since morning in Kashmir as earlier in the day, a CRPF posted in South Kashmir who was admitted in SKIMS, Soura breathed his last after testing positive for the pandemic.
Earlier in the day, a 35-year-old man from Khanyar area of Srinagar, who had met an accident and had contracted the deadly virus, succumbed at CD hospital, Srinagar and in the afternoon a 65- year-old man from Handwara who was having many underlying ailments died at CD hospital.
Dr. Salim Khan Nodal officer for Covid-19 at GMC Srinagar confirmed to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a Covid-19 positive patient who was undergoing treatment at SMHS hospital has died at the hospital on Monday afternoon. “He was 55-year-old and hailed from Pampore area of Pulwawama district,” he said. “The patient was admitted on Saturday with bilateral pneumonia.”
The death toll due to Covid-19 positive patients in Jammu and Kashmir has reached to 46 which includes 41 from Kashmir division (including a non-local tailor and a CRPF man) and five from Jammu division.
As far the deceased CRPF man, the CRPF top brass decided to perform the last rites of its first COVID causality in Kashmir only and not to send the body of deceased to his native village.
“We are going to follow Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) guidelines in spirit while dealing with the body of deceased CRPF man,” said Assistant Commandant and CRPF spokesman for (operations) in Kashmir, Junaid Khan told KNO. “The deceased CRPF man will be cremated in Kashmir only while following the proper protocol”—(KNO)