Jammu and Kashmir detects 535 fresh COVID-19 cases

Jammu and Kashmir on Monday recorded 535 new cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of infected persons to 37,698 even as nine deaths were reported from the union territory during the past 24 hours, officials said. They said among the new cases, 245 were from the Jammu region while 290 were



from the Kashmir valley.

 

Jammu district reported the highest number of 139 new cases, followed by 90 in Srinagar district, the officials said. There are 7,980 active cases of the coronavirus disease in the UT at present while 29,015 patients have recovered so far, they said.