One More Test Positive In Kashmir, COVID-19 Cases Surge To 28 In J&K

Srinagar, March 28 : One more person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Kashmir Valley on Saturday. This takes the total number of coronavirus disease (COVID1-9) cases in Kashmir to 22 and in the entire J&K to 28.

Official sources told that one more person has tested positive for the coronavirus in SKIMS Soura.

Confirming it, a senior doctor at SKIMS said test sample of one person, admitted in the hospital, came out to be positive.

With the fresh positive case, the tally of COVID-19 patients in the Kashmir region has gone up to 22 and one of them, the 65-year-old man from Hyderpora, originally a resident of Sopore, died on Thursday.

In all, 27 persons have tested positive for the COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, 21 of them are in Kashmir region—3 in the winter capital of the J&K and as many in Rajouri district reported news agency GNS.