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A senior official of the Union Territory of Ladakh on Sunday said that a 73-year-old man from Leh died of urinary tract infection and not from coronavirus.

Commissioner secretary Rigzin Samphel said, “The patient had urinary tract complications. We have sent his samples and have not received the results as yet but the cause of his death was not the coronavirus infection.”

Ali Mohammad, 73, who hailed from Yaukuma Chochuk village was hospitalised in a Leh hospital on March 7.

Apart from the urinary tract infection he also had high pyrexia. He died on Sunday morning.

Samphel also informed that the two patients, who have tested positive for the coronavirus infection, have been kept in isolation.

“They are hale and hearty. They were quarantined from day one at the hospital,” said Samphel.

Both the quarantined patients had a history of travelling to coronavirus-hit countries. They had returned from Iran.

Meanwhile, reports of the two persons with travel history to Iran and South Korea, who have been admitted in an isolation ward of the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu, were still awaited.