Srinagar: Two persons including an elderly woman from Bandipora and a 40-year-old man from Srinagar died after contracting COVID-19 since Saturday night, officials said on Sunday.

A 70-year-old woman from Nadihal Bandipora died at SKIMS Bemina, 13 days after she was admitted to the hospital, one of the exclusive facilities for the management of the covid-19 patients here, the officials said.

A 40-year-old man of Bemina who was admitted to a hospital here on August 26 and diagnosed with bilateral community acquired pneumonia died today, they said
Last night, two women—one of them a 55-year-old woman from Khour Pallanwalla and another a 46-year-old from Chack Arnia died at GMC hospital Jammu.

With these deaths, 694 persons have died due to the virus—62 from Jammu and 632 from the Valley. (GNS)

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