Coronavirus claims second life in held Kashmir

By News Desk

ISLAMABAD: Indian-occupied Kashmir recorded another coronavirus fatality on Sunday as a man from the Tangmarg area of the northern Baramulla district died. The death takes the disputed territory’s toll to two.

According to the Kashmir Media Service, a government official said the 60-year-old succumbed to the disease at Srinagar’s Chest Disease hospital at around 4:00 am.

A doctor said the man was referred from Srinagar’s SMHS hospital and had tested positive just a day prior, and had pre-existing medical conditions. “He was put on a ventilator yesterday evening,” said the doctor. “The patient was [also] suffering from a liver ailment,” the doctor added.

The man had no travel history and died of pneumonia triggered by the virus. Occupation authorities also confirmed the death, as did a Tangmarg police officer.

Meanwhile, one more person tested positive for the virus at the hospital, taking the number of infected to 24 in the occupied Kashmir Valley and an overall 33 in Jammu and Kashmir. On Thursday last week, held Kashmir’s first virus-related death came as a 65-year-old from Hyderpora died of the disease.