Srinagar: Three more persons succumbed to the COVID-19 during the last twenty-four hours, taking the fatality count due to the pestilence in Jammu and Kashmir to 1900, on Wednesday.
They said that all the victims belonged to Kashmir Valley—a 60-year-old man from Urpash Ganderbal, a 75-year-old man from Sangam Anantnag and a 50-year-old man from Magam Handwara in Kupwara.
With these deaths, the total fatality count reached 1194 in the Valley while 706 have succumbed to the virus in Jammu region.
Srinagar district with 450 deaths tops the list followed by Jammu (361), Baramulla (172), Budgam (110), Kupwara (93), Pulwama (88), Anantnag (84), Doda (64), Bandipora (60), Udhampur (57), Kulgam (53), Rajouri (54), Kathua (49), Ganderbal (45), Shopian (39), Samba (39), Poonch (24), Ramban (21), Kishtwar(22), and Reasi (15). (GNS)
