Srinagar, Jun 21 (UNI) A 51-year-old from Kupwara died of COVID-19 in Kashmir valley on Sunday, taking the death toll due to the infection in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to 82.
With this, 46 people have lost their lives due to infection in 17 days, and 67 people in 33 day in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases are nearing 6000-mark. Five persons -- 40-year-old woman from Srinagar, 80-year-old woman from Kulgam, another woman from Pulwama, 65-year-old man from Budgam and a Jammu resident -- died due to COVID-19.