Lakshadweep reported its first case of covid-19 on Monday.The patient is a traveller who had come to Lakshadweep from Kochi in Kerala on 4th January 2021 by a ship.
The case had reported to hospital with symptoms suggestive of covid-19 and was tested positive, the union health ministry said.
Initially 31 primary contacts of the index case (patient zero or the first case in a population) have been traced and quarantined of which 14 have now been found to be positive and have been isolated.