Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday recorded 20 fresh Covid cases, taking the number of infected persons to 478992, while no fatality reported due to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said.

 Of the new cases, 09 were from the Jammu division and 11 from the Kashmir division of the union territory, Officials said.

There are 161 active cases in the union territory while the number of recoveries so far has been 474046, officials said.

 31 Covid-19 patients recovered today, 10 from Jammu division and 21 from Kashmir division, they said.