Srinagar: For the first time in the past two weeks, Jammu and Kashmir on Monday witnessed a slight dip in the COVID cases as 3,614 were recorded while 56 fresh deaths were also reported in the UT.
The total number of total active cases in J&K has risen to 49,551 while with 56 fresh death, the death toll has reached 3614. The total positive case tally has reached 220,546. Sources said that this was for the first time that J&K has seen a slight dip in the positive cases in the past two weeks as only 3614 positive cases only. On May 9, the J&K UT recorded over 5190 cases, highest ever since the outbreak of pandemic in J&K.
Srinagar, the summer capital, that even saw a record spike of over 1100 positive cases, today recorded an all-time low of 701 positive cases, in the past two weeks. Srinagar is witnessing complete Corona curfew for the past 10 days. Officials are hopeful that the district witnesses a decline in positivity rate in the weeks ahead.
Of the exact number of 220,546 cases, 136,018 are from the Kashmir division and 84,528 from Jammu division. Among 3,614 new cases, 2,118 belong to Kashmir division while 1,496 are from Jammu division, adding that the total number of positive cases in the Kashmir division has reached 136,018 including 102,144 recoveries and 1,572 deaths while as a total number of positive cases in Jammu division has reached to 84,669 including 65,669 recoveries and 1,210 deaths.
The officials said that the total number of active cases in Jammu and Kashmir are 49,951 including 32,302 from Kashmir division and 17,649 from Jammu division.
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