18-yr-old man becomes J-K's youngest COVID-19 victim
Jun 15, 2020, 13:40 IST
Srinagar, Jun 15 () An 18-year-old man succumbed to COVID-19 here on Monday, becoming the youngest person to die of the disease in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
The man, a resident of Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, was admitted to the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital here on June 12 as a medico-legal case involving assault, the officials said.
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His swab sample for the novel coronavirus was taken the next day which came back positive, they said, adding that he died around 3 am.
He had serious head injuries besides bilateral pneumonia, they said.
With the fresh death, the toll due to COVID-19 in the union territory has risen to 61. SSB MIJ DPB(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)