SRINAGAR : Jammu and Kashmir recorded its second COVID-19 death on Sunday after a patient being treated in a hospital here succumbed.
The total number of coronavirus positive patients in the Union territory was 33. The latest victim is a 50-year-old man from Tangmarg in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, who tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, and died early Sunday morning in the Chest and Diseases hospital, taking the death toll due to the disease to two.
He was kept in an isolation ward of the hospital after testing positive for the virus. Government spokesman Rohit Kansal confirmed this and tweeted: "Sad start to the day.