Dingko Singh tests positive for COVID-19
May 31, 2020, 19:06 IST
New Delhi, May 31 () Asian Games gold medal-winning former boxer Dingko Singh, who is already battling liver cancer, has tested positive for COVID-19, a source close to him told on Sunday.
The 41-year-old was flown to the national capital earlier this month to undergo radiation therapy and had returned to his home state Manipur after being diagnosed with jaundice once again.
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"He was negative when he left from Delhi but has tested positive on his return to Manipur," the source told .
The swashbuckling former bantamweight boxer won the Asian Games gold in the 1998 edition in Bangkok. He is an Arjuna and Padma Shri awardee. PM PM PM(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)