Four days after his young son died of Covid-19, a man from Alamgari Bazar area of Srinagar became the fresh victim of the novel disease in Kashmir on Monday.

With his death, the number of people who have become a casualty of the novel Coronavirus disease in Jammu and Kashmir has gone up to ten – 9 of them in Kashmir and one in Jammu division.

Quoting sources, news agency GNS reported that the man with underlying serious comorbidities, died at the CD hospital where he was shifted soon after testing positive for Covid-19 on May 8.

“He was suffering from pancreatic cancer and had other comorbidities. He died at the hospital this afternoon,” Dr Salim Tak, Medical Superintendent CD Hospital Srinagar was quoted as having said by GNS.

The 32- year-old son of the deceased had died on May 7 after he contracted the disease while attending to his father at Oncology department of Super Speciality Hospital Shireen Bagh.