<p class="bodytext">Fourteen more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Sikkim on Friday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 27, an official said.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-in-india-live-updates-today-lockdown-50-maharashtra-karnataka-tamil-nadu-mumbai-bangalore-delhi-bengaluru-kolkata-chennai-covid-19-news-world-narendra-modi-843634.html">Follow live updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here</a></strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">All the new patients were in various quarantine centres in East Sikkim district, the health department's director general-cum-secretary Dr Pempa T Bhutia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Nine were in Bahai School quarantine facility in Ranipool area, three in Epica garden and two in PNG School," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They have been shifted to the COVID-19 isolation ward of the STNM Hospital, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three quarantine centres have been declared as containment zones, Bhutia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sikkim has 24 active COVID-19 cases, while three patients have recovered from the disease.</p>
<p class="bodytext">Fourteen more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Sikkim on Friday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 27, an official said.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-in-india-live-updates-today-lockdown-50-maharashtra-karnataka-tamil-nadu-mumbai-bangalore-delhi-bengaluru-kolkata-chennai-covid-19-news-world-narendra-modi-843634.html">Follow live updates on the COVID-19 pandemic here</a></strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">All the new patients were in various quarantine centres in East Sikkim district, the health department's director general-cum-secretary Dr Pempa T Bhutia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Nine were in Bahai School quarantine facility in Ranipool area, three in Epica garden and two in PNG School," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They have been shifted to the COVID-19 isolation ward of the STNM Hospital, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three quarantine centres have been declared as containment zones, Bhutia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sikkim has 24 active COVID-19 cases, while three patients have recovered from the disease.</p>