Srinagar, Jul 13 (UNI) The death toll continued to rise unabated with one more person dying due to COVID-19 in Kashmir on Monday, taking the total number of fatalities due to infection in the Union Territory of J&K to 182.
With these deaths, 146 people have lost their lives due to infection in 39 days, and 166 people in 53 day in J&K, where the COVID-19 positive cases have surpassed 10,500-mark.
Official sources said that a 46-year-old man, a resident of Sopore in Baramulla, was admitted to S K Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) for bilateral Community-Acquired pneumonia (CAP) with Thrombocytopenia (a low number of platelets in the blood) and multiple myelomas (a cancer of plasma cells). “The patient, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at around 0600 hrs on Monday,” they said.