1,079 new Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths in Jammu & Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir recorded its highest single-day spike of 1,079 coronavirus cases on Thursday taking the infection tally to 39,943, while the death toll due to the disease rose to 743 with 11 fatalities, officials said.

 

"There were 1,079 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours. This is for



the first time that the number of fresh cases has crossed 1,000 in a 24-hour period," an official said.

 

Among the new cases, 622 were from the Jammu region and 457 from the Kashmir valley. This is also for the first time that the number or positive cases in Jammu region was higher than the valley.