Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, June 7: Four persons including two Army personnel, one of them an officer, tested positive for COVID-19 in Ladakh, pushing the total number of cases in the Union Territory to 103.
Three positive cases were reported from Leh district and one from Kargil.
Of three positives in Leh, two were Army personnel. The officer had travelled in the same flight from New Delhi to Leh on which former Union Minister P Namgayal was on board on May 28.
Namgayal had died of COVID few days back.
Third positive from Leh is a woman from village Tesmisgum.
Out of 362 reports received from National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) New Delhi, one sample from Leh was positive. The health department received 29 reports from a COVID-19 laboratory at Chuchot Yokma, Leh, of which two from Leh and another from Kargil were positive, the official said.
The number of active coronavirus cases in Ladakh now stood at 52, and the condition of all of them was “stable”, he said.
While one person had died of the disease, 50 have recovered and subsequently discharged from hospital.
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