A 26-year-old youth was among 19 more people who succumbed to covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir in last 24 hours, taking its fatality count to 954.

A senior Engineer working as Executive Engineer in PHE Rural division Jammu also died due to Covid-19 in Jammu today. The death of AEE PDD and Exen PHE has brought to fore the problem of essential service engineers being exposed to Covid-19. 

Five of the deaths were reported from Kashmir Valley and 14 from Jammu division, officials said.

Among the deaths from Kashmir Valley, they said, a 95-year-old woman from Bandipora, a 65-year-old from Pirbagh, a 62-year-old woman from Lal Bazar, a man from Chewdara Beerwa , a 73-year-old man from Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Among others, the victims from Jammu include a 38-year-old man from Ramgarh, a 74-year-old man from Mahendra Nagar, a 65-year-old man from Residency Road, an 86-year-old from Lazpal Nagar and a 26-year-old from Patoli Battadeh Jammu.

With these deaths, 954 people has lost lives to the virus in Jammu and Kashmir—755 from Valley and 199 from Jammu.