Bhubaneswar: School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash and his wife, Sangeeta, have tested positive for COVID-19.
The minister informed this in a tweet on Monday. He wrote that he and his wife are in home isolation and their condition is stable.
He also advised people who came in contact with him in the last seven days, to undergo COVID-19 test and keep themselves in isolation.
Dash is the seventh minister in Odisha to have tested positive for COVID-19. Earlier, Ranendra Pratap Swain, Tukuni Sahu, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Susanta Singh, Arun Kumar Sahu and Padmini Dian also tested positive.
Two MPs from Odisha, Ramesh Majhi (Nabarangpur) and Manjulata Mandal (Bhadrak), have also tested positive.
Besides, Baliguda MLA Chakramani Kanhar, Kendrapada MLA Sashi Bhusan Behera, Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher, Nabarangpur MLA Sadasiva Pradhani, Laxmipur MLA Prabhu Jani, Anandpur MLA Bhagirathi Sethy, Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Basudevpur MLA Bishnubrata Routray, Bhubaneswar North MLA Susant Rout, Bhubaneswar Central MLA Ananta Narayan Jena, Berhampur MLA Bikram Panda, Chandbali MLA Byomakesh Ray, former Badamba MLA Debi Prasad Mishra, Pottangi MLA Pritam Padhi, Bhadrak MLA Sanjib Mallick, Bari MLA Sunanda Das, Polasara MLA Srikant Sahu, Remuna MLA Sudhanshu Shekhar Parida, Jagatsinghpur MLA Prasanta Muduli and Selapur MLA Prasant Behera have tested positive for the virus.
