Following Union home minister Amit Shah testing positive for COVID-19, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Sunday said he has also tested positive for COVID-19. Yediyurappa is the fourth member of his cabinet to contract the viral disease.
“I have tested positive for coronavirus. Whilst I am fine, I am being hospitalised as a precaution on the recommendation of doctors. I request those who have come in contact with me recently to be observant and exercise self quarantine,” the veteran BJP leader wrote on Twitter.
The chief minister was taken to the Manipal hospital at the Old Airport Road here, sources close to him said.
Yediyurappa was in-home quarantine a couple of weeks ago, after some staff members in his office-cum-residence were found infected with the virus. Subsequently, his COVID-19 test results were found to be negative. However, his latest test results were positive.
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