SRINAGAR: In the last 24 hours, Jammu and Kashmir reported 54 fresh deaths and detected 5191 new Covid19 infections. This is despite the fact that the pandemic has literally paralysed everything across the erstwhile state.
SRINAGAR: In the run-up to Eid the invisible contagion continues to be the single biggest killer in Jammu and Kashmir. In the last 24 hours, it killed another 60 people across Jammu and Kashmir taking the overall death toll in Jammu and Kashmir to 2672, officials’ sources said.
Yawar Hussain
You do not require a funeral ground – even a road is ok because not many people come to join. In this photograph relatives and locals attending the funeral prayers of Covid Positive person at Zadi Masjid Safa Kadal Srinagar Tuesday, May 4, 2021. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
On April 25, Saifullah Bashir was taken aback when he got a call from a health department official declaring him Covid-19 positive after a wait of eight days. During this period he had mingled with his family as he was asymptomatic.
Bashir, a student had gone for RT-PCR testing at the Primary Health Centre in Batamaloo (Srinagar) on April 17 following contact with a Covid-19 patient.
SRINAGAR: The dreaded Covid-19 disease killed two senior Jammu and Kashmir bank managers, one each in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi. These included Imtiaz Ahmad, who headed the civil secretariat branch, and Sanjay Kundu, who headed the Bank’s Chowri Bazar branch.
Imtiaz Ahmad, one of the two JK Bank managers who were killed by Covid-19 on May 3, 2021.
Sanjay Kundu, one of the two JK Bank managers who were killed by Covid-19 on May 3, 2021.
Imtiaz, people who knew him, was a resident of Sonawar locality and was living in a nuclear family with his wife and two daughters. His wife is a homemaker. He had contracted Covid-19 and had taken ill for barely 24 hours. He is reported to have died because of cardiac arrest. Barring some small disability in one hand, his friends said he was healthy throughout. He was around 55.
SRINAGAR: The ferocious Covid-19 disease has killed another 44 people in the last 24 hours taking the overall death toll in Jammu and Kashmir to 2421, officials’ sources said. The number of deaths and new infections is slightly more than yesterday.
As many as 28 deaths took place in Jammu and 16 in Kashmir divisions, the information revealed by the government said.
Jammu town continues to top the list of the dead for yet another consecutive day. It lost 17 citizens in the last 24 hours. Srinagar, the other capital city lost seven residents, the same number as it lost yesterday.
The district-wise details suggest that Kashmir lost two residents each in Baramulla, Budgam, Kupwara and Kulgam, and one in Ganderbal.