Ladakh's coronavirus caseload increased to 23,079 on Saturday as 106 more people tested positive for the virus, officials said.
Eighty-six of the new cases were reported from Leh district and 20 from Kargil district, they said.
According to the officials, the COVID-19 death toll in the Union territory stands at 222 -- 164 fatalities in Leh and 58 in Kargil.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Ladakh has gone up to 669 – 603 in Leh and 66 in Kargil, the officials said.
Thirty-five patients were discharged from hospitals in Leh during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries in Ladakh to 21,188, they said.
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The officials said the total positivity rate of Ladakh stands at 3.8 per cent.
