12 COVID deaths reported in 24 hours take JK’s tally to 1,352, infections at 85,409

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday recorded 12 COVID related deaths taking the death toll to 1,352 in JK while as 701 positive cases were reported in 24 hours, pushing the tally to 85,409.

Of the total 85,409 cases, 51,183 are from Kashmir and 34,226 from Jammu division. Officials said that among 701 new cases, 437 belong to Kashmir division while as 264 are from Jammu division, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division has reached to 51,183 including 44,377 recoveries and 909 deaths while as a total number of positive cases in Jammu division have reached to 34,226 including 29,941 recoveries and 443 deaths.

The officials said that the total number of active cases in Jammu and Kashmir are 9,739 including 5,897 from Kashmir division and 3,842 from Jammu division.

With 816 more recoveries, the tally of total recoveries in Jammu and Kashmir has reached to 74,318 which is ( 87.01) per cent of the total cases.

As per the daily information bulletin, 618,854 persons in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 24,191 persons have been kept under home quarantine besides that 9,739 persons are in isolation.

According to the bulletin, 534,151 persons have completed surveillance period and 49,421 persons are under home surveillance besides that so far results of 1,902,884 samples are available.

Out of 1,902,884, the number of samples tested negative stands at 1,817,475 while 85,409 have tested positive, among them 9,739 are active, 74,318 persons have recovered and 1,352 persons have died.

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