Two more test positive with COVID-19 in Ladakh, total cases rise to 10

Two more persons have tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the number of such patients in the Union Territory to 10, a government official said on Friday.

Commissioner Secretary (Health) Rigzin Samphel said both the latest cases were from Choshot village of Leh, which was already notified as a containment area by the district administration.

"After the



reports of the two patients came positive, they were immediately shifted to an isolation ward in a hospital here by health officials," Samphel told reporters.

Samphel said the test reports of 55 more patients, including 11 taken on Friday, were sent to a laboratory in Delhi.

Officials said the condition of all the coronavirus patients in the Union Territory was stable.