{"id":25530,"date":"2020-05-16T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/70-year-old-man-from-budgam-becomes-12th-fatality-due-to-covid-19-jk\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T14:25:42","slug":"70-year-old-man-from-budgam-becomes-12th-fatality-due-to-covid-19-jk-gns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25530","title":{"rendered":"70-Year-Old Man From Budgam Becomes 12th Fatality Due To Covid-19 J&amp;K"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar: <\/strong>A 70-year-old man from Budgam on Saturday became latest victim of novel coronavirus and his death took the overall toll due the disease to 12 in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical Superintendent SKIMS, Professor Farooq Jan, told GNS that the man had suffered heart attack and was reported to Casualty section late last night. \u201cHe died at 8 a.m. on Saturday,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThere was element of chest ailment also. His swap sample was taken and the same returned positive this evening,\u201d he said. The body of the elderly had been kept in mortuary and would be handed over to the family after completing formalities as per covid-19 protocol, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources said that the septuagenarian was a resident of Buchru Chadooora in central Kashmir\u2019s Budgam district.<br \/>With this fatality, 12 persons have died due to the disease so far in Jammu and Kashmir\u201410 of them in Kashmir and two in Jammu division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Srinagar district has reported 4 of the deaths, highest in any district, followed by Baramulla (3) and one each in Bandipora, Anantnag, Budgam, Udhampur and Jammu. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: A 70-year-old man from Budgam on Saturday became latest victim of novel coronavirus and his death took the overall toll due the disease to 12 in Jammu and Kashmir. Medical Superintendent SKIMS, Professor Farooq Jan, told GNS that the man had suffered heart attack and was reported to Casualty section late last night. \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}