{"id":27206,"date":"2020-06-11T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/j-k-reports-161-fresh-covid-cases-2-deaths\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:33:56","slug":"j-k-reports-161-fresh-covid-cases-2-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27206","title":{"rendered":"J-K reports 161 fresh COVID cases, 2 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11551401_J-K-reports-161-fresh-COVID-cases--2-deaths.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Jammu and Kashmir recorded 161 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the total number of infections in the union territory to 4,507, as two fresh deaths pushed the toll to 51, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As many as 161 new positive cases of coronavirus were detected in the union territory Wednesday,&#8221; the officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said while 46 of these cases are from Jammu, 117 are from the Kashmir region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials said the Wednesday&#8217;s cases included 29 people who had returned to the union territory recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shopian and Kulgam districts witnessed a sudden surge in number of COVID cases as 37 and 28 people tested positive in the two districts respectively, the officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Udhampur and Kupwara also recorded higher numbers of 19 and 18 positive cases respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no fresh cases in four districts &#8212; Ganderbal, Reasi, Rajouri and Kishtwar, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two COVID positive patients &#8212; both male &#8212; died during the day. The deceased hailed from Kulgam and Baramulla districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Wednesday&#8217;s fresh cases, the total number of infected people in Jammu and Kashmir rose to 4,507.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Of these, 3,522 are in Kashmir, while 985 are in the Jammu region,&#8221; the officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 2,785 active cases in the union territory 2,073 in Kashmir and 712 in Jammu &#8212; while 1,671 patients have recovered, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Union Territory has witnessed 51 COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 161 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the total number of infections in the union territory to 4,507, as two fresh deaths pushed the toll to 51, officials said. &#8220;As many as 161 new positive cases of coronavirus were detected in the union territory Wednesday,&#8221; the officials said. They [&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-27206","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\/27206","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=27206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}