4 more test positive in Ladakh

Tribune News Service

Jammu, June 4

Four more persons, including three from Kargil district, tested positive in Ladakh, taking the total number of active cases to 45 in the UT.

According to the Ladakh Health Department, a total of 66 sample reports were received from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi, out of which four were found positive for coronavirus.

Besides, 32 sample reports were tested at the Chuchot Yokma lab, where all sample reports were negative for Covid. “The condition of all 45 active cases in Ladakh is stable,” a senior official said.

Meanwhile, the controversy over “handling” of the body of former Union Minister P Namgyal, who died of coronavirus, refuses to die down with former minister Chering Dorjay questioning the silence of the Congress over the issue.

“It looks like that some medical staff will be implicated by making them a scapegoat. We demand that responsibility should be fixed right from the top and not from the bottom,” Dorjay said in a statement.