Srinagar, May 21 : The death toll due to COVID-19 a deadly virus has mounted to 20 in Jammu and Kashmir as now 80 year old woman from Sringar died at SMHS.
A health official told news agency KINS, A 80 year old lady from Usmania Colony, Bemina Srinagar was admitted in SMHS Hospital Srinagar with bilateral pneumonia and hypertension on 19 May and was kept in Isolation Ward, died on 20 May evening and was kept in GMC Srinagar mortuary. Her COVID test report came today as COVID positive.
With her death, the toll due to the coronavirus in Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 20—18 from Kashmir and 2 from Jammu division.
