{"id":26911,"date":"2020-06-07T08:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/two-new-covid-19-cases-in-ladakh-tally-reaches-99\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:49:25","slug":"two-new-covid-19-cases-in-ladakh-tally-reaches-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26911","title":{"rendered":"Two new COVID-19 cases in Ladakh, tally reaches 99"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/11540195_Two-new-COVID-19-cases-in-Ladakh--tally-reaches-99.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leh:<\/strong>\u00a0Two more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Ladakh taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to 99, Health department officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior Congress leader had died due to the virus while 50 patients have been cured and discharged so far, the officials added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials said two people from Kargil district tested positive for coronavirus, taking the number of active cases in Ladakh to 48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While 40 active cases are undergoing treatment in Kargil, the remaining eight are admitted in a COVID-19 hospital in Leh, they said, adding the condition of all the 48 patients is stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the new patients were shifted to a COVID-19 hospital in Kargil and efforts are on to identify their contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the 50 patients cured of the disease, the officials said two of them were discharged from Mahabodhi COVID-19 hospital in Leh on Saturday morning after their negative sample reports were received by the department on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Leh:\u00a0Two more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Ladakh taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory to 99, Health department officials said on Saturday. A senior Congress leader had died due to the virus while 50 patients have been cured and discharged so far, the officials added. The officials said two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}