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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 202 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the infection count to 3,37,646, while no death due to the virus were reported from the Union Territory in the past 24 hours, officials said.
Eighty-eight of the new cases were from the Jammu division and 114 from the Kashmir division, the officials said.
They said Srinagar district recorded a maximum of 49 new cases, followed by 18 cases in Baramulla district.
There are 1,731 active cases in the Union Territory, while the number of recovered patients stands at 3,31,436, the officials said.
The death toll from the pandemic remained unchanged at 4,479, they said.
Meanwhile, Ladakh has reported 27 fresh cases of coronovarius and one death due to it in last 24 hours, officials said.
The fresh cases pushed the overall virus tally in the Union Territory (UT) to 21,669 and active cases to 311.
The sole death was reported from Leh district on Friday, which took the overall death toll in the region since the outbreak of pandemic to 215, the officials said.
Leh has recorded 157 deaths for its 18,014 cases. The rest 58 deaths have been reported from Kargil, which has logged 3655 cases till date.
Officials said a total of 2024 persons were tested for COVID in the UT on Friday. Among the positive, 26 were reported from Leh and one from Kargil.
Leh in particular has witnessed a spurt in coronavirus cases since the beginning of November, registering seven deaths and 671 cases prompting the authorities to reimpose various measures including night curfew and banning gathering of five or more persons. Schools have also been closed.
On Friday, nineteen patients were discharged from a hospital in Leh and two others in Kargil, taking the number of recovered patients in Ladakh to 21,143, which is 97.6 per cent of the total caseload. There are 311 active cases – 286 in Leh and 25 in Kargil, the officials said.