Jammu Tawi/Srinagar, July 10 -- Jammu and Kashmir Thursday witnessed five more COVID-19 related deaths that included a young National Conference leader from Jammu, taking the number of people who died of the virus to 154 in the UT.

A local National Conference youth leader from Jammu, Rohit Kirni died in GMC Jammu due to Corona conditions. A doctor at GMC Jammu said that the 38-year-old was serious and died this afternoon.

He said that the patient had been put on a ventilator but the medical teams, in spite of their best efforts, couldn't stabilise him. "He had tested positive for Covid-19 and breathed his last today afternoon," the doctor said.

Officials told that the two patients include 60-year-old woman from Pattan Baramulla, 80-yea...