{"id":29317,"date":"2020-07-05T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29317"},"modified":"2020-07-05T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T06:52:46","slug":"kashmir-valley-reports-2-more-covid-19-deaths-jk-toll-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29317","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir Valley Reports 2 More Covid-19 Deaths, J&#038;K Toll 129"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: Kashmir Valley reported two more deaths due to covid-19, taking the fatality count due to the virus in J&amp;K to 129, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among them, a 40-year-old man from Baramulla died at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients in Valley, while another, a 70-year-old man from Anantnag district passed away at SKIMS Soura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical Superintendent CD Hospital, Dr Salim Tak, told GNS that the patient, a resident of Sangrama Sopore area of the northern Kashmir district, was suffering from bilateral pneumonia. \u201cHe was shifted from SMHS hospital to CD hospital on June 27,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medical Superintendent SKIMS Soura, Professor Farooq Jan, told GNS that the septuagenarian was admitted in ward 2A of the hospital on July 3 with bilateral pneumonia with Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHis sample for covid19 was collected on the same day and came out positive on July 4,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThe patient was on NIV support and his attendants had given negative consent for intubation. The patient expired at 10 p.m. on July 4.\u201d The body was kept in mortuary overnight, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the deaths, 129 people have succumbed to the virus in J&amp;K\u2014 115 from the Valley and 14 from Jammu division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Srinagar district with 30 deaths has the highest fatalities followed by Baramulla (23), Kulgam (16), Shopian (13), Anantnag (11), Budgam (100, Jammu(8), Kupwara (7), Pulwama (four), Doda (two) while one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Ganderbal, Poonch, Udhampur, Rajouri and Kathua. (GNS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Kashmir Valley reported two more deaths due to covid-19, taking the fatality count due to the virus in J&amp;K to 129, officials said on Sunday. Among them, a 40-year-old man from Baramulla died at CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients in Valley, while another, a 70-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29317","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\/29317","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=29317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}