Covid-19 free Sikkim reports first case of coronavirus
| May 23, 2020, 17:59 IST
GANGTOK | MAY 23, 2020
Sikkim reported its first covid-19 case today, which has been confirmed by the Health Secretary Dr. Pempa Bhutia.
According to Health Secretary Dr. Pempa Bhutia said that the patient is a 25-year-old, who had arrived Sikkim on May 17 and was quarantined at JNV Rabong, South Sikkim.
Bhutia said that presently, the patient is admitted at the Covid-19 ward at STNM hospital in Gangtok.
Meanwhile, the state authorities are tracing all the contacts of the patient and they will be sent to quarantine and tested too, he informed.
