Kendrapada: Another former legislator of the state has tested positive for COVID-19.
Devendra Sharma, the former MLA from Aul Assembly constituency in the district, was suffering from urinary track infection (UTI) and fever five days ago. After he went to CARE hospital in Bhubaneswar for treatment, he underwent COVID-19 test and was found infected with the coronavirus.
He was admitted to the hospital after the test report came positive, according to his daughter Dr Debasmita Sharma. Sharma was elected to the Assembly on a Congress ticket in 2014.
Former Brajarajnagar MLA Anup Sai, now lodged in a jail in Chhattisgarh, had tested positive for COVID-19 recently.
