Kargil district in the Union Territory of Ladakh was today heading towards becoming Coronavirus-free with two positive patients of the district testing negative but the authorities said they will wait for their second test before discharging them and declaring them as treated. Commissioner/Secretary Health Rigzin Samphel told reporters in Leh that that there were only four active cases of COVID-19 in Ladakh after 11 others had tested negative and discharged. Ladakh had total of 15 Coronavirus positive cases. Of four active cases, two more tested negative today. Both of them belonged to Kargil district. “We will wait for second negative report of the patients before declaring Kargil as Coronavirus-free district,” Samphel said, adding remaining two active cases are from Leh district. Authorities in Ladakh today received reports of 31 samples and all of them were negative, Samphel said.
