80-yr-old COVID-19 positive woman dies in JK; total 8 deaths due to pandemic in UT

Press Trust of India  |  Srinagar 

The death toll due to COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir has risen to eight after a coronavirus positive elderly woman died at a hospital here on Tuesday, officials said.

"The elderly woman died today. She was diabetic and also hypertensive," the officials said.

The 80-year-old woman from Srinagar city is the eighth COVID-19 patient and also the third woman to die of the disease in the union territory.

Jammu and Kashmir has reported 546 positive cases of COVID-19 so far.As many as 164 of them have recovered.

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First Published: Tue, April 28 2020. 17:26 IST