5 new COVID-19 cases reported in Sikkim; tally rises to 63

Gangtok, 14 June (PTI): Five more people, who are returnees from Mumbai and Delhi, tested positive for coronavirus infection in Sikkim, taking the total number of active cases in the Himalayan state to 63, a senior health department official said.


Of the five, three are from West Sikkim district and two from East Sikkim, Director-General of Health, Pempa T Bhutia said.

 

They had been lodged in various quarantine centres and now they were shifted to the STNM Hospital in Gangtok.

 

Bhutia said four COVID-19 patients were discharged from the hospital after they were cured of the disease.