In a breaking report, a Tibetan woman has tested COVID-19 positive in the state of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. According to the confirmation from the COVID-19 emergency relief committee of exile Tibetan administration, the Tibetan woman became the second Tibetan to contract Coronavirus in India till date.
A 65 year old Tibetan woman recently returned from New Delhi to Phuntsokling Tibetan refugee settlement in Dalhousie. Following the testing carried out at the Dalhousie, the elderly Tibetan woman was found infected with coronavirus. This was confirmed by the chair person of the CTA COVID-19 Emergency Relief Committee as per Tibetan report.
While the first Tibetan infected with coronavirus in India passed away in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh earlier this year, the woman is receiving treatment from local government hospital without any problem. Contact tracing of the COVID-19 positive patient is going on and they will soon be tested for Coronavirus. With the staggered opening of India, several parts of the country earlier known to be free of the infection discovered cases in people returning from different places.
As per the latest update, there are 213 cases of Coronavirus infections among Tibetan refugees abroad, i.e., those refugees in countries apart from India, Nepal and Bhutan. This is as per the information sent by the Offices of Tibet from various countries. According to the information, there are 8 deaths while 165 of them have recovered. This leaves a total of 40 active cases in Tibetans abroad.
With the spread of coronavirus that originated from Wuhan city of China, world came to a halt. There are lockdowns implemented in most countries leading to a completed stop of international flights. The pandemic has now infected more than 6 million people across the world. It has claimed more than 376K human lives and overwhelmed the health systems in most of the countries.
As far as India is concerned, more than two hundred thousand cases of infections with more than 5800 deaths has been reported. In addition to that there has been a continued rise in the cases of new infections from India.
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