JP Nadda tests Covid positive, undergoes home isolation
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- BJP National President JP Nadda has tested Covid positive.
- Earlier, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Karnataka CM Bommai had also tested Covid positive.
- All the leaders are currently in home isolation.
BJP president JP Nadda on Monday said that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Nadda said that he has isolated himself on the advice of doctors and urged people who came in contact with him recently to get tested for the virus. After having some symptoms of the disease, he got tested and said that he was feeling fine.
“I got my covid test done after showing initial symptoms. My report has come positive. Now I am feeling fine. I have isolated myself on the advice of doctors. All the people who came in contact with me in the last few days are Requested to get myself tested”, he tweeted.
Earlier, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh had also tweeted to inform that he has tested positive for the infection. Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai has also tested positive. All the leaders are in home isolation.
Bommai today attended several official events, including the funeral of renowned Kannada litterateur Chandrashekhar Patil, precautionary doses of COVID vaccination, meeting on administrative reforms and meeting with a delegation of former vice-chancellors.
The Chief Minister’s Office said that all his official programs have been cancelled.
India is seeing a rise in the number of infections as the highly permeable Omicron version of the virus fuels the spread.
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