52-yr-old Baramulla resident succumb to Covid-19, J&K toll 98

A 52-year-old man from Baramulla district of north Kashmir died at JVC hospital in Bemina on Tuesday after he was found positive for COVID-19, taking the death toll due to the virus in J&K to 98.

Dr. Shifa Deva, Medical Superintendent at JVC Bemina told the local news agency that the man had tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted at JVC hospital on June 27 with bilateral Pneumonia and other ailments. “He was kept in ICU where he died on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest,” she said.