A visual has emerged from the Baramullah region of Jammu and Kashmir, India where a coffin of a 72-year-old man who died is being buried while maintaining the social distancing norms.
The septuagenarian man was identified as Qazipora Tangmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district died at SKIMS Bemina hospital here, making it the sixth death in Kashmir due to the novel coronavirus.
The elderly had tested positive for the dreaded disease earlier this month.
He was admitted to hospital with pneumonia, hypertension and had other “comorbidities.”
“He was admitted to the high dependency unit. He was pneumonia, hypertensive, AF and BCH patient,” Dr Shafa A Deva, Medical Superintendent SKIMS Bemina said.
She said the septuagenarian was admitted to the hospital, one of the exclusively COVID-19 management facilities, on April 13. “He was shifted to ICU yesterday where he died,” the doctor added further.
With due compliance to the guidelines by the Ministry of Health, she said the body was handed over to the family of the elderly man for last rites.
The body was packed inside a coffin with precautions and buried with full rites in full surveillance of the authorised medical personnel.