Jammu, April 29 (IANS) The Covid situation continued to worsen unabated in J&K on Thursday as 3,474 new cases and 26 deaths occurred in last 24 hours, taking the number of active cases in the Union Territory to 26,144.

Officials said that of the new cases, 1,024 were from the Jammu division and 2,450 from the Kashmir division while 1,617 patients were discharged from different hospitals after recovery.

So far, 172,551 people have been infected with coronavirus in J&K, out of which 144,154 have recovered, while 2,253 have succumbed.

The number of active cases is 26,144 out of which 9,815 are from the Jammu division and 16,329 from the Kashmir division.

--IANS sq/vd