J&K sees declining trend with 686 cases, 6 deaths

Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 686 new Covid, dipping below the 1000-mark in the last four weeks and taking the tally of infected people to 4,47,334..

The union territory also reported six deaths due to the virus in the past 24 hours, they added.

Out of the fresh cases, 312 were reported from the Jammu division and 374 from Kashmir, the officials said.

This was for the first time since January 10 this year that the daily fresh COVID was fell below the four-digit figure, they said.

The officials said Jammu district recorded the highest of 137 cases followed by 119 in the Srinagar district.
There are 14,924 active cases in the union territory at present while the number of cured patients was 4,24,521, the officials said.

The death toll in the union territory due to the pandemic rose to 4,721 after six fresh deaths were reported in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the officials said, the number of confirmed cases of Mucormycosis (black fungus) stayed put at 51 in the UT as no fresh case was reported since last evening.

As per officials figures, 101,163 positive cases including 903 deaths and 95,957 recoveries are from Srinagar, 37,360 including 303 deaths and 35,000 recoveries are from Baramulla, 34,513 including 33,669 recoveries and 233 deaths are from Budgam, 18,333 including 17,860 recoveries and 201 deaths are from Pulwama, 21,452 including 172 deaths and 20,697 recoveries are from Kupwara, 22,314 including 21,265 recoveries and 218 deaths are from Anantnag, 13,586 cases including 13,185 and 118 deaths are from Bandipora, 13,518 including 13,144 recoveries and 84 deaths are from Ganderbal, 16,229 including 15,552 recoveries and 118 deaths are from Kulgam and 6,276 including 6,049 recoveries and 60 deaths are from Shopian.

In Jammu division, 74,494 including 71,133 recoveries and 1,218 deaths are from Jammu district, 14,557 including 14,137 recoveries and 146 deaths are from Udhampur, 12,699 including 12,333 recoveries and 248 deaths are from Rajouri, 10,705 including 9,627 recoveries and 143 deaths are from Doda, 11,201 including 10,776 recoveries and 162 deaths are from Kathua, 9,022 including 8,779 recoveries and 123 deaths are from Samba, 5,786 including 5,557 recoveries and 45 deaths are from Kishtwar, 7,678 including 7,364 recoveries and 109 deaths are from Poonch, 7,826 including 7,308 recoveries and 69 deaths are from Ramban and 8,622 including 8,397 recoveries and 48 deaths are from Reasi.

As per the daily information bulletin 5,876,140 persons in Jammu and Kashmir are under observation while 28,903 persons have been kept under home quarantine besides that 14,924 persons are in isolation.

According to the bulletin, 5,392,446 persons have completed the surveillance period and 435,146 persons are under home surveillance besides that so far results of 21,918,950 samples are available. Out of 21,918,950 the number of samples tested negative stands at 21,471,616 while as 447,334 have tested positive, among them 14,924 persons are active, 427,689 persons have recovered and 4,721 persons have died.