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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday recorded 72 fresh coronavirus cases, raising its tally to 3,31,566, officials said.
No death due to the pandemic was reported in the union territory in the past 24 hours, they added.
Of the72 cases, nine were recorded from the Jammu division and 63 from the Kashmir division, the officials said.
They said Srinagar district recorded the highest number of 34 cases, followed by 13 cases in Baramulla district.
There are 862 active cases in the union territory, while the number of recovered patients was 3,26,275, the officials said.
The death toll in the union territory stood at 4,429, they said.
The officials said there were 49 confirmed cases of mucormycosis (black fungus) in the union territory and no fresh case was reported since Friday evening.
Meanwhile, no fresh COVID cases were recorded during the past 24 hours in Ladakh, where three patients recovered from the infection, bringing down the active cases in the Union Territory to 40, officials said.
Ladakh has registered an overall tally of 20,896 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. Among them, 208 persons — 150 in Leh and 58 in Kargil — succumbed to the disease.
The officials said 1,548 people were tested for COVID-19 in the twin districts on Friday, but all the reports were found negative.
However, they said three Covid patients were discharged from a hospital in Leh on Friday, taking the number of those recovered to 20,648.
With this, the number of active cases in Ladakh dropped to 40, which included 39 in Leh and one in Kargil, the officials said.