Jammu Tawi, Mar 18: In Jammu and Kashmir, active Covid-cases crossed 1,000 again on Wednesday for first time since January after 126 COVID cases, the highest daily count in two months.
The new infections took the number of active cases to 1,008 while the tally since the pandemic began went up to 1, 27,957.
The death toll reached 1,977 with one casualty in Kashmir division.
In the past 36 days, the union territory has added 415 active cases taking the total active cases to 1,008 on Wednesday from 593 on February 9, which was the lowest since May, 2020.
Since the first Covid-19 cases were detected in Jammu and Kashmir in March 2020, the active cases had crossed 1,000 mark in the last week of May 2020 when the pandemic was wreaking havoc across the globe.
By the end of the year, the cases had started to decline. The New Year ushered a constant decline in cases coupled with an increasing number of recovery of patients that pushed the active cases to plunge below the 1,000 mark again on January 28.
