Srinagar, May 10 (IANS) The Covid crisis continued in J&K on Monday with 3,614 new cases and 56 deaths reported during the last 24 hours.

Officials said that 1,496 cases and 39 deaths were reported from the Jammu division and 2,118 cases and 17 deaths from the Kashmir division while 2,855 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery.

So far, 220,546 people have been infected with coronavirus in J&K out of which 167,813 have recovered, while 2,782 have succumbed so far.

The number of active cases is 49,951 out of which 17,649 are from the Jammu division and 32,302 are from the Kashmir division.

--IANS sq/vd