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Tested positive for Corona virus, hospitalized: tweets Home Minister Amit Shah

New Delhi | 2-Aug-2020

Union home minster Amit Shah on Sunday has tested positive for novel coronavirus infection. "On getting the initial symptoms of corona, I got the test done and the report came back positive," the home minister said today via social media platform Twitter. He is being admitted to the hospital for treatment. "I am feeling okay, but on the advice of the doctors I am getting myself admitted into a hospital," he added."I request everyone who has come in contact with me over the last few days please isolate and get yourselves tested," he said.
Shah has tweeted that he has tested positive for coronavirus, which has infected more than 17 lakh people in the country.
"On getting the initial symptoms of coronavirus, I got the test done and the report came back positive. My health is fine, but I am being admitted to the hospital on the advice of doctors. I request that all of you who have come in contact with me in the last few days, please isolate yourself and get your inquiry done," the minister's tweet in Hindi roughly said.
India witnessed the biggest jump in COVID-19 cases as over 57,000 had tested positive for novel coronavirus infection. With this, India's COVID-19 tally neared 17 lakh mark. Coronavirus claimed as many as 764 lives in the last 24 hours. The death toll from the virus zoomed to 36,511. The fatality rate in the country was one of the lowest in the world, the health ministry said.