Covid-19 claims six more lives in Valley, J&K toll 560

Kashmir valley reported six more deaths due to COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, taking the fatality count due to the deadly virus in Jammu and Kashmir to 560.

Official sources told a local news agency that those who succumbed to the virus include a 70-year-old man from Handwara who died at SKIMS Soura, six days after he was admitted to the tertiary care hospital.

A 55-year-old woman from Ompora Budgam who was admitted to SMHS hospital here on August 16 died today. Also, a 65-year-old man from Tregam Kupwara died at the SMHS hospital, they said.

A 65-year-old man from Handwara died at CD hospital Dalgate Srinagar, one of the exclusive facilities for the mismanagement of the COVID-19 patients here. “She was declared dead at 4:30 a.m.,” a doctor at the hospital told a local news agency

Two more patients succumbed at SKIMS Bemina, also among the exclusive facilities for the COVID-19 patients here.