Srinagar, June 08(KNB): A 55 year old patient became the fourth victim of novel coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
As per the reports, the patient who was hailing from Pampore town of Pulwama besides testing positive for the Coronavirus was also suffering from acute Pneumonia and today died at SMHS Hospital.
Earlier a CRPF personnel, elderly man from Haril Handwara and a man from Khanyar Srinagar died in Srinagar hospital. Both had been tested positive for Covid-19 while the man from Srinagar, though tested positive, died due to head injury which he had sustained in road accident.
With this death the tally of Covid-19 patients who have died in Jammu and Kashmir has reached 45, among which two are non-locals including a trooper and four deceased hail from Jammu region.(KNB)