Kashmir has reported seven coronavirus deaths in the past five days as another patient succumbed to the dreaded virus late on Tuesday, officials said.

A 40-year-old woman of Veer village in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara sub-district died with CoVID-19 and pancreatitis at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura Srinagar.

She was under treatment for pancreatitis at SKIMS Soura for the past one month.

“A patient from Veer Bijbehara died late last night. The deceased patient was shifted to the COVID-19 isolation ward of SKIMS soon after her test for coronavirus came positive last week,” said Dr Ghulam Hassan Yatoo, the Nodal officer for coronavirus control at SKIMS.

“She was suffering from acute pancreatitis, which has a high mortality,” Yatoo said.

Her body has been buried at her ancestral graveyard in Veer following protocol for COVID-19 mortalities.

She is survived by a son and two minor daughters.

This is the 7th COVID-19 death in past five days after a 70-year-old man from Chadoora Budgam died at SKIMS on May 16. He had suffered from a total heart blockage, which doctors determined as the main cause of his death. Three persons died of COVID-19—in what was the highest single-day mortality—on Monday.

So far 18 persons have died with or of COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir. A Majority of them, 16, have died in Kashmir alone.