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JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 83 fresh COVID-19 cases and one fatality on Tuesday, pushing the union territory’s infection tally to 3,23,582 and its death toll 4,399, officials said.
Of the fresh cases, 38 were from Jammu division and 45 from Kashmir division, they said.
The officials said Srinagar district recorded the highest number of 17 new cases, followed by Jammu with nine.
The number of active cases now stands at 1,158, while 3,18,025 patients have recovered from the disease so far, they added.
The officials said there were 42 confirmed cases of Mucormycosis (black fungus) in the union territory.
Meanwhile, Ladakh recorded four fresh COVID cases, taking the tally to 20,455 while the total active cases in the Union territory has gone down to 77, officials said.
Ladakh has registered 207 COVID-related deaths — 149 in Leh and 58 in Kargil — since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. A total of 20,171 patients have recovered till date.
Of the total 4 new cases, three were from Leh and one from Kargil. A total of 2,509 sample reports in Ladakh, including 934 from Leh and 1,575 from Kargil, were found negative, they said.
There was no new death due to coronavirus in Ladakh in the past 24 hours.
Ladakh has discharged nine patients with seven recoveries from Leh and three from Kargil.
With this, the total number of active cases in Ladakh has gone down to 77, including 65 in Leh and 12 in Kargil. The total active cases count in the UT stood at 82 on Monday.