Srinagar, January 25: With the death of one more person due to swine flu, the death toll in the pandemic has gone upto five in Jammu and Kashmir, health officials said today.
Garrison Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) employee Manoj Kumar of Kerala, who was admitted to a hospital here on January 17, died last evening.
As a precautionary measure, 30 colleagues of Kumar have been given medicines and are being treated at their unit in Akhnoor.
The pandemic has so far claimed a total of five lives in the state including that of a Kashmiri businessman, a student, a youth and a labourer.
Sixty-five positive cases of the flu have been detected so far, health officials said
—PTI