Srinagar, May 18(KNB): The total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir crosses the mark 1200 after 45 more persons tested positive including five doctors and nineteen armed cops since yesterday evening.
As per the reports five doctors including a 30-year-old from Bemina Srinagar posted at SKIMS MCH, 27-year-old from Asham Sumbal Bandipora posted in Orthodontics dental college Srinagar, 46-year-old from Ladakh Consultant ENT SMHS, 42-year-old from Mahjoor Nagar Srinagar Consultant ENT SMHS and Registrar ENT SMHS, a 30-year-old doctor and 19 armed cops were among the forty-five new positive cases.
Earlier, a 29- year -old covid-19 positive lady from Habba Kadal treated by a doctor from Dental college besides doctors of ENT section of Shri Maharaja hospital Srinagar died on Sunday at CD hospital, taking the total death toll to 13.
Moreover, 50-year-old woman from Bemina Srinagar, 75-year-old woman of Kokernag, 55-year-old man from Fateh Kadal Srinagar, 65-year-old woman from Kulgam, 56-year-old from Kargil, 70-year-old woman from Budgam, 55-year-old man from Pattan Baramulla and 27-year-old from Sallar Anantnag were tested positive at CD hospital’s covid-19 testing lab.
Meanwhile, nineteen armed policemen who tested positive are aged between 25 to 53 years old and maximum among them are in 30s while as eleven other samples were confirmed at army’s Command Hospital Udhampur and include 10 from Kulgam and one resident of Udhampur district.
As of now a total of 1234 positive cases are confirmed in Jammu and Kashmir with 595 active cases, 13 deaths and 575 recoveries.(KNB)