Jammu and Kashmir recorded four more covid-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the fatality count due to the pestilence to 1746.
Official sources said on Sunday that three of them the victims belonged to the Jammu region and one was from Kashmir Valley—a 70-year-old man from the Batamaloo area of Srinagar.
They said that the septuagenarian was admitted to the CD hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients, on November 14. Regarding the deaths from the Jammu region, they said, two were from the winter capital of the J&K—an 84-year-old man from Muthi and a 52-year-old woman from R S Pora—and one from Kishtwar district.
With these deaths, the total fatality count in the Valley has reached 1126 and 619in the Jammu region. Srinagar district with 427 deaths tops the list followed by Jammu (316), Baramulla (163), Budgam (103), Pulwama (86), Kupwara (85), Anantnag (80), Doda (57), Bandipora (55), Kulgam (51), Udhampur (51), Rajouri (50), Kathua (42), Ganderbal (39), Shopian (37), Samba (33), Poonch (22), Ramban (20), Kishtwar(20), and Reasi (9).