Jammu and Kashmir registered yet another death due to Covid-19. A 65 year old woman from Batamaloo Srinagar who died yesterday tested positive for Covid-19 posthumously.

She had many underlying ailments including pneumonia. With the latest fatality, the death toll due to the virus in J&K has gone up to 36. So far Srinagar district with nine deaths due to the virus has the highest fatalities, followed by Baramulla - seven, Anantnag - five, Kulgam - four, two each from Shopian, Budgam and Jammu while one death each has been reported from Bandipora, Kupwara, Doda and Udhampur.

In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the biggest-ever surge in the positive cases were reported yesterday. 41 more covid patients have, however, recovered yesterday and discharged from various hospitals taking the total number of persons having recovered so far in Jammu and Kashmir to 1048.

Although, Government is tirelessly reaching-out to the people with the guidelines being issued from time-to-time but the onus and the adherence of administrative guidelines greatly lies on the implementation by the people at large that eventually would help to contain the spread of the pandemic.

Our correspondent reports, the number of COVID cases in Jammu and Kashmir has climbed to 3,142 as Union Territory has witnessed the biggest ever single day spike of 285 positive cases yesterday. Among these cases, the maximum number of 222 cases were reported from the Kashmir Division that has terrified the residents of Kashmir Valley. A sixty year old man from Noorbagh area of Srinagar has fallen prey to the pandemic thus taking the total number of fatalities to thirty-five in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Meanwhile, the public at large has been advised to strictly follow the advisories issued by the Government from time-to-time and rely only on the information as released by the Government. It has also advised to refrain from spreading any rumours and not to pay any heed to them.

To combat the pandemic , authorities in Jammu and Kashmir has taken a slew of welfare measures to benefit common man in the union terrotory. Government spokesperson Rohit Kansal said these welfare measures proved effective during lockdown to mitigate suffering of the people.

Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory has become number one in the country for conducting maximum tests per day for coronavirus pandemic.The testing capacity in the union territory has gone up from just 100 tests per day in March to present 8000 tests per day.

In the previous month, tests in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up from 1800 tests per day to 8100 tests, which is an increase of 350 percent, as far as percentage of tests in Jammu and Kashmir is concerned. Meanwhile, 47 new cases of COVID-19 were reported yesterday in Jammu and Kashmir, out of which 33 were from reported from Jammu and 14 from Kashmir region taking the total number of cases to 1668. Two fatalities, one each in Jammu and Kashmir regions, were reported yesterday taking the death toll due to pandemic in Jammu and Kashmir to 23.