Cancer-stricken boxing hero Dingko Singh tests positive for COVID-19

Asian Games gold medal-winning former boxer Dingko Singh, who’s already battling liver most cancers, has examined positive for COVID-19, a supply near him instructed PTI on Sunday.

The 41-year-old was flown to the nationwide capital earlier this month to bear radiation remedy and had returned to his dwelling state Manipur after being identified with jaundice as soon as once more.

“He was negative when he left from Delhi but has tested positive on his return to Manipur,” the supply stated.

“He has been admitted to a hospital there, adds another battle to the ones he is already fighting. While he was in Delhi till last week, his nurse had tested positive but he himself was negative at the time of leaving,” he added.

Singh’s scheduled radiation remedy in March was delayed due to the nationwide lockdown and he was dropped at Delhi in an air ambulance organized by the Boxing Federation of India within the final week of April.

However, his remedy might nonetheless not be accomplished due to jaundice and he took an arduous 2400km street journey again to Manipur in an ambulance.

“Perhaps he caught the infection in the ambulance. I don’t know, it could be anything. I guess all those who came in contact with him during his stay in Delhi will also have to quarantine and get tested,” the supply stated.

Singh has been battling ill-health for a lot of years now, beginning with the liver most cancers, for which he’s being handled since 2017. In between, he has additionally suffered from jaundice.

The swashbuckling former bantamweight boxer gained the Asian Games gold within the 1998 version in Bangkok.

He gained the Arjuna award in 1998 and was bestowed the nation’s fourth highest civilian honour — the Padma Shri — in 2013.

A maverick, who impressed the likes of six-time world champion M C Mary Kom, Singh is employed with the Indian Navy and likewise labored as a coach earlier than ill-health confined him to his dwelling.

Manipur has thus far recorded 71 coronavirus circumstances, out of which 11 have recovered.

The state has not seen any deaths associated to the lethal pandemic thus far.