SRINAGAR: An elderly man died on Monday in a hospital due to COVID-19 in Kashmir valley, taking the toll due to the infection in the Union Territory of J&K to 14.
This is the third death due to COVID-19 in less than 72 hours and fifth in eight days in J&K, which recorded the highest single-week jump of 389 COVID-19 cases between May 11 and May 17.
Official sources said a COVID-19 patient, whose sample tested negative during the last two times, again tested positive for the infection after he died in Chest Disease hospital, Srinagar, on Monday.
“A Kokernag resident, who was in his 70s, had tested negative twice at CD hospital, where he was admitted after he tested positive for the infection earlier this month,” they said.
They said the patient was shifted to SHMS hospital for an emergency procedure — tracheostomy that involves creating an opening in the neck in order to place a tube into a person’s windpipe. “The patient was again tested for COVID-19 and was shifted to CD hospital,” he said.
However, they said the patient, who was continuously on ventilator from last eight days, died in CD hospital on Monday. “The patient had acute Pneumonia,” they added.
This was the second death due to COVID-19 in south Kashmir district of Anantnag. The worst affected district in terms of mortality rate is Srinagar, where five people have lost their lives to the infection so far.
A 29-year-old woman, a resident of Habba Kadal in the city, died at Chest Disease hospital, Srinagar, at around 1600 hrs on Sunday. Five doctors, including four of them who treated 29-year-old woman patient, tested positive for COVID-19 in the summer capital, Srinagar on Monday.
An elderly man, who died in a hospital in the summer capital, Srinagar on Saturday, tested positive for COVID-19. Another elderly man had died on Wednesday in Jammu due to COVID-19.
Earlier this week, an elderly man died on Monday due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley. The death of the elderly man had come just days after his son became the youngest victim of the infection in J&K.
J&K recorded first death due to COVID-19 on March 25, when a 65-year-old man from Hyderpora died due to the infection at Chest Disease Hospital. Then, on March 29, a 50-year-old man, a resident of Tangmarg, passed away at CD hospital.
Last month, a 54-year-old Bandipora resident, who had tested positive for the infection, died at SMHS hospital. Later on April 8, a 61-year-old woman from Udhampur died at Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu. A 70-year-old patient died on April 17 due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley.
An elderly man, a resident of Baramulla, on April 18 died due to Coronavirus in Kashmir valley. A pregnant woman, who died at a hospital in Anantnag on Saturday, tested positive on April 26. An 80-year-old woman succumbed to it on April 28. (AGENCIES)
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