15-day-old among four Covid deaths in J&K, 125 new cases
SRINAGAR:A 15-day-old child was the youngest to die among the four patients who succumbed to Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, taking the total fatalities to 75.
With 125 fresh infections , the total number of people affected by the disease is 5,680. Of these, 23 are from Jammu and 102 from Kashmir division, with 25 among them having travel history
Officials said all four deaths were reported from Kashmir, which included the 15-day-old baby from Srinagar’s Bemina, two elderly men from Srinagar and Baramulla districts and a middle-aged woman from Shopian.
The baby, who had serious heart ailment, died at Sher-iKashmir Institute of Medical
Sciences , Soura, two days after testing positive for Covid-19, a doctor said.
An 80-year-old patient from Sopore also died at the hospital on Friday, while a 79-year-old man from Srinagar lost his life to the infection on Thursday evening.
A woman in her fifties from Shopian district had died at the Chest Diseases Hospital in Srinagar on Thursday evening.
Dr Nisar ul Hassan, a senior doctor representing a faction of the Doctors Association Kashmir
(DAK), said over 17% of Covid-19 cases in Kashmir pertained to children and young adults.
“While children make up for fewer than 2% of the reported Covid-19 cases globally, in Kashmir, 17.29% of cases are in the age group of 0-19 years,” he said in a statement issued to a local news agency. However, he stated that most children with the infection had mild or no symptoms. He said no such child became seriously ill.
Dr Nisar said based on their analysis of the data, of 989 labconfirmed cases, 171 (17.29%) were below 19 years of age. “Majority of the children who tested positive for the disease had a history of contact with infected adults,” he said.
He said the death of the baby was the valley’s first infant death and the baby had underlying severe heart ailment.
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