Jammu, March 30 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday saw its highest single-day surge of Covid-19 cases, at 359, while the number of active cases crossed 2,200 and one death was reported during the last 24 hours.

Health Department officials said that of the new cases, 93 were from the Jammu division and 266 from the Kashmir division while 175 patients were discharged from different hospitals after recovery.

So far, 130,587 people have been infected with coronavirus in J&K out of which 126,304 have recovered, and 1,990 people have succumbed.

The number of active cases is 2,293 out of which 615 are from the Jammu division and 1,678 from the Kashmir division.

--IANS sq/vd