In what can be termed as good news amid gloom generated by novel Coronavirus, the health department has declared that the sample of a trainee IFS officer who was positive for the disease and undergoing treatment at the isolation facility of the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) hospital was found negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday. The Director General (DG) of health services, Dr Amita Upreti said that the trainee would be kept in isolation for next 14 days and his second sample would be sent for COVID-19 test. As per the World Health Organisation (WHO) norms, any patient of COVID-19 would be declared free from disease only two when two of their samples are found negative. Three trainee officers of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) were found positive for COVID-19 after their return from tour of Spain.