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A Sikkimese woman undergoing treatment in New Delhi has been tested positive for COVID-19.

The 36-years-old woman from Sikkim is a chronic kidney patient and is on dialysis in a hospital in New Delhi.

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She is staying at DKK Bhawan, New Delhi while undergoing treatment.

Speaking to media in Gangtok on Wednesday, principal director-cum-secretary of Health Department, Dr P T Bhutia has officially confirmed that a Sikkimese woman undergoing treatment at a hospital in New Delhi has been tested positive.

He informed that she was undergoing treatment since some months in New Delhi.

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He added that the woman has been hospitalized in a hospital and her attendees have been kept in the facility quarantine under Delhi government.

The secretary mentioned that people living in DKK Bhawan have also been properly quarantined.

 

Sagar Chhetri is Northeast Now Correspondent in Gangtok. He can be reached at: [email protected]