{"id":29165,"date":"2020-07-02T20:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29165"},"modified":"2020-07-02T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:22:52","slug":"jk-reports-10-deaths-in-a-day-jk-toll-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29165","title":{"rendered":"J&K Reports 10 Deaths In A Day, J&K Toll 117"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Srinagar<\/strong>: Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday reported ten deaths due to novel coronavirus, taking the fatality count due to the covid-19 in J&K to 117. Nine of these casualties took place in Kashmir Valley and one in Jammu division which was actually confirmed two days after a 63-year-old from Doda died in an army hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding those reported from the Valley, five were reported at SKIMS Soura, three at SMHS hospital and one at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the covid-19 management here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Talking to GNS, Professor Farooq Jan, Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, a 75-year-old man from Kawoosa area of Budgam district died at the hospital around 7:25 p.m. this evening, five days after he was admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe patient was diagnosed MND with CAP and he died due to cardiopulmonary arrest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Earlier, a said 65-year-old man from Nadigam Shopian, who was admitted in Infectious Disease Block of the hospital on July 1 as a case of Coronary Artery Disease with bilateral Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with Type-1 Respiratory Failure, passed away at 4.45 p.m, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Prior to him, Professor Jan said that a 65-year-old resident of Tarigam Kulgam, who was admitted on June 23, died at the hospital. \u201cHe was referred from GMC Anantnag in view of B\/L CAP with ARDS. The patient was Covid positive and died at 2:30 p.m.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, 55-year-old and 65-year-old men from Kulgam and Baramulla districts respectively died at the tertiary care hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that the quinquagenarian from Yaripora area of Kulgam was admitted on June 22 and died 12:10 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was known case of hypertension with (type-2 diabetes) with multifocal Encephalopathy (brain disease),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Another patient\u2014the sexagenarian from Baramulla\u2019s Sopore town also died ten days after admission to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe patient was hypertensive, T2DM (type-2 diabetes) with Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and he had sudden cardiopulmonary arrest at 3:05 a.m.\u201d Professor Jan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, a resident of Habba Kadal area of Srinagar, a 60-year-old man died at CD hospital. Dr Salim Tak, hospital\u2019s Medical Superintendent, told GNS that man was admitted on June 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was diabetic, hypertensive and was suffering pneumonia and other ailments,\u201d he added.
Dr Nazir Choudhary, Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital, told GNS that a 65-year-old man with \u201cbilateral pneumonia\u201d from Kulgam district died this afternoon. \u201cHis sample was taken as soon as he was admitted to the hospital yesterday and it came out to be positive for the virus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Earlier, Dr Choudhary said, a 75-year-old man from Wadwan Budgam district and a 65-year-old from Batamaloo Srinagar with underlying ailments including hypertension and bilateral pneumonia died at the hospital. \u201cThe woman was also suffering from Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Both of them were admitted yesterday (Wednesday),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile sources told GNS that a swab sample reports of a 63-year-old man from Doda returned positive for the virus. He was actually admitted to GMC Jammu on June 20 and later shifted to Udhampur army hospital. Having suffered the brain hemorrhage, the sexagenarian died on June 30, the sources added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With the deaths, 117 people so far have succumbed to the virus in J&K\u2014 103 from the Valley and 14 from Jammu division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Srinagar district with 27 deaths has the highest fatalities followed by Baramulla (18), Kulgam (16), Shopian (13), Budgam (10), Anantnag (9), Jammu(8), Kupwara (6), Pulwama (four), Doda (2) while one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Poonch, Udhampur, Rajouri and Kathua. (GNS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday reported ten deaths due to novel coronavirus, taking the fatality count due to the covid-19 in J&K to 117. Nine of these casualties took place in Kashmir Valley and one in Jammu division which was actually confirmed two days after a 63-year-old from Doda died in an army hospital. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29165","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\/29165","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=29165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}