The 35-year-old isolated in a Ladakh hospital is mystified. He had no symptoms of Covid-19, no travel history outside his village in the re...
The 35-year-old isolated in a Ladakh hospital is mystified. He had no symptoms of Covid-19, no travel history outside his village in the recent past, his friends and family had tested negative for the virus. Besides, when he went to get tested on April 30, no new cases had been reported from his village, Yokma, in the Chuchot area of Ladakh since April 13.
“I thought, since I am from a red-zone, it’s better to get tested, but when the results came, I was puzzled,” the 35-year-old told Scroll.in on the phone from the hospital. “I spoke to other positive cases as well and they say none of them had any [travel] history or were in touch with any [known] positive cases.”
On May 3, he became one of the 18 patients who tested positive for coronavirus in Ladakh. The Union Territory was one of the first places in the country to report cases of the virus. Most of these were traced back to Yokma and Gongma villages in the Chuchot area of Leh district. Much before the national lockdown was declared on March 24, both villages were sealed. Gongma, declared a containment zone on March 8, was unsealed on May 8. Yokma has...
