Srinagar/May, 20 : The Jammu and Kashmir reported 18th COVID-19 death on Wednesday morning at SKIMS Soura.
Reports said a 40-year-old positive patient from Anantnag district died on Tuesday in the late evening hours at Sher Kashmir Institute of Medical (SKIMS) Soura.
With the fresh death, the total number of COVID deaths in J&K have reached 18, of which 16 are from Kashmir and two from Jammu region.
Confirming the death hospital sources at SKIMS said that a positive patient from Bijbehara area of Anantnag , who was COVID positive, died at SKIMS at around 11:30 pm on Tuesday.
They said that patient was shifted to SKIMS from SMHS with gastronomic and other problems.
In last 3 days J&K recorded 5 COVID deaths including three from South Kashmir that included two elderly men and a women with Cancer history, besides a 55-year-old patient from Rafiabad
