The Lead The Newsfeed

COVID: 72 new cases, no fresh deaths

REPRESENTAITONAL IMAGE

 

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.

Meanwhile, 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.

 

The Dispatch is present across a number of social media platforms. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for exciting videos; join us on Facebook, Intagram and Twitter for quick updates and discussions. We are also available on the Telegram. Follow us on Pinterest for thousands of pictures and graphics. We care to respond to text messages on WhatsApp at 8082480136 [No calls accepted]. To contribute an article or pitch a story idea, write to us at [email protected] |Click to know more about The Dispatch, our standards and policies