Agencies:

The death count due to Covid-19 mounted to 71 in J&K after an 80-year-old from Srinagar and a 65-year-old from Shopian succumbed to the virus at a hospital here, officials said.
Dr. Nazir Choudhary, Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital here told that the octogenarian from Srinagar’s Nawa Bazar area was admitted on June 16 and died the next day. “He was having hypertension and bilateral pneumonia besides other underlying ailments,” he said.
Regarding Shopian patient he said, the 65-year-old was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday with “acute breathlessness. A resident of Chakoora Shopian, the sexagenarian’s body is being brought to his hometown, Dr Ramesh Kumar, CMO Shopian told.