{"id":26481,"date":"2020-06-01T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/45-year-old-shopian-covid-19-patient-dies-jk-toll-29\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:38:22","slug":"45-year-old-shopian-covid-19-patient-dies-jk-toll-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26481","title":{"rendered":"45-year-old Shopian Covid-19 patient dies, J&#038;K Toll 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar: <\/strong>A day after a 45-year-old man from Shopian district died at SKIMS Soura, his swap sample returned positive for the novel coronavirus on Monday, taking the death toll due to the dreaded disease in Jammu and Kashmir to 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim, a resident of Ramnagar Shopian, was admitted to in SKIMS Soura\u2019s Emergency at 9 P.M. on May 31 as a case of \u201cCKD, ESRD with b\/l Chest infiltrates\u201d, Professor Farooq Jan, Medical superintendent of the tertiary hospital told GNS. \u201cThe patient had AGE like illness and was in shock,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cafter initial stabilization, the patient was shifted to Ward 2A as a suspect case of COVID-19 and his nasopharyngeal swab was taken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the patient expired during midnight. \u201cThe body was kept in mortuary and all precautions were taken,\u201d he said. The swab sample for the COVID-19 came positive at 2p.m., he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the fatality, the death toll due to the virus in J&amp;K has gone upto 29. So far Srinagar district has highest number of the fatalities\u20147 followed by Anantnag and Baramulla with five deaths each, Kulgam has reported four while Budgam, Shopian and Jammu have two each and one death each has been reported from Bandipora and Udhampur. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: A day after a 45-year-old man from Shopian district died at SKIMS Soura, his swap sample returned positive for the novel coronavirus on Monday, taking the death toll due to the dreaded disease in Jammu and Kashmir to 29. The victim, a resident of Ramnagar Shopian, was admitted to in SKIMS Soura\u2019s Emergency at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26481","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\/26481","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=26481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}