Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, 71, announced Tuesday night that he tested positive for coronavirus. He told HT that he was fine and that initial tests showed no major complications.
In fact, Naidu addressed an annual virtual health care conference on “Post-COVID Healthcare World” on Tuesday night. Minutes after he finished addressing the Covid program, Naidu was informed about the results of his Covid test. According to officials, the vice president quickly conducted additional tests.
“The vice president of India, who underwent a routine test for Covid-19 earlier this morning, tested positive. However, he is asymptomatic and in good health. They have advised home quarantine. His wife Smt. Usha Naidu tested negative and is in self-isolation, ”tweeted the vice president’s secretary.
The vice president is the top Indian official who has tested positive for covid so far. He had frequently presided over the recently concluded monsoon session of Parliament that lasted for ten days before being suspended on September 23 amid Covid concerns.
During the session, two union ministers, Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel, and at least 30 parliamentarians tested positive for Covid-19, leading the authorities to interrupt the session.
Naidu’s aides maintained that his initial report shows that the lung has not been affected and that it has no visible complications.
Addressing the health conference on Tuesday, Naidu called on people to adjust to the new normal amid the pandemic and take the utmost precautions and condemned the cases of stigma and discrimination against frontline warriors and patients from Covid-19.
Calling on people to adapt to the culture of the new normal and to take seriously all the prescribed precautions to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, he said it was very important for people to act responsibly and support the multiple efforts of the government and health professionals. to break the transmission of the dreaded virus.
“We simply cannot allow complacency to set in and lower our guard,” he added.
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