India News | No New Covid Case Reported in Ladakh: Officials
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. No new Covid case was reported in Ladakh on Thursday, while four more patients recovered from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 20,091, officials said.
Leh, Aug 5 (PTI) No new Covid case was reported in Ladakh on Thursday, while four more patients recovered from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 20,091, officials said.
A total of 1,870 samples in the Union Territory tested negative for the infection, according to a bulletin released by the directorate of health services in Ladakh.
No new positive case of COVID-19 was reported in the last 24 hours, the bulletin added.
Ladakh has registered 207 Covid-related deaths -- 149 in Leh and 58 in Kargil -- since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.
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Four more patients recovered from the infection -- three from Leh and one from Kargil -- and the total number of recoveries reached 20,091.
With this, the total number of active cases in the UT has come down to 67 -- 64 in Leh and three in Kargil district.
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