STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday recorded nine fresh cases of coronavirus, taking the infected number of persons to 4,53,929 while no death due to the virus was reported in the past 24 hours, officials said.
There are 71 active cases in the union territory, while the number of recovered patients was 4,49,107, the officials said.
All the fresh cases were from Kashmir division of the union territory, the officials said, adding the Srinagar district recorded the highest of seven cases.
Eighteen of the total 22 districts in the Union territory did not report any fresh cases.
The death toll in the union territory due to the pandemic was 4,751 as no fresh death was reported in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, one fresh COVID-19 case was reported in Ladakh, taking the overall virus tally in the Union Territory to 28,239, officials said.
The number of active cases, however, dropped to eight after the recovery of two more patients in Leh on Friday, the officials said, adding that with this the number of recovered patients in Ladakh has gone up to 28,003.
According to the officials, there was no COVID-related death in the region, which has so far recorded 228 fatalities linked to the pandemic since its outbreak.
Of the total fatalities, Leh district accounted for the highest 168 deaths among 22,959 cases, followed by 60 in Kargil which had recorded a total of 5,280 cases.
The officials said the new case was reported in Kargil, taking the number of active cases in the district to two. Leh has six active COVID-19 cases.