COVID19: Kulgam woman tests positive after death, J&K toll 23..

COVID19: Kulgam woman tests positive after death, J&K toll 23

Srinagar, : The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 23 in Jammu and Kashmir as swab sample reports of an elderly woman from Kulgam district of south Kashmir, who died couple of days ago, returned positive on Monday. “A 65-year-old lady from Bugam Kulgam was admitted in SMHS Hospital Srinagar on 22-5-2020 with bilateral pneumonia. She died next day and her body was kept in mortuary of GMC Srinagar...CMO Kulgam Dr Fazil Kochak said that the woman was admitted to SMHS hospital and had visited the facility on her own.With this fatality, the death toll due to the virus has gone upto 3 in Kulgam and overall 23 in J&K.

So far Srinagar district has highest number of the fatalities—6 followed by Anantnag and Baramulla with four deaths, Kulgam 3 while Budgam and Jammu have two each and one death each has been reported from Bandipora and Udhampur.(GNS)