Bhubaneswar: From former President Pranab Mukherjee to Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Bhubaneswar (Central) MLA Ananta Narayana Jena contracting COVID-19, it is evident that coronavirus has made its way into the Indian corridors of power.
In the latest, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is the sixth among Union Ministers to have tested positive for coronavirus.
August has begun on a sombre note for national as well as Odisha politicians, who have the luxury to stay as much protected from this infection as any precaution book allows, as they have announced about contracting the virus.
More so, the world is 150 days into the coronavirus pandemic and yet awaits a vaccine.
Here’s a list of some prominent political leaders from Odisha and elsewhere in the country who have contracted the virus while some have recovered:
The Khandapada MLA and editor of the regional newspaper, ‘Sambad’, along with his wife, were admitted to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19 on August 14. The two were admitted to Ashwini COVID Hospital in Cuttack
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tested positive for COVID-19 on July 25. In a tweet on his official account, the Chief Minister wrote in Hindi: “My dear countrymen, I was having COVID-19 symptoms and, after a test, my report came back positive”. However, he has now recovered and resumed his work.
The Karnataka Chief Minister was admitted to Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru after he tested COVID-19 positive on August 3. He took to Twitter to inform about his test result. His daughter, Padmavathi, had also tested positive for the virus, but his son, Vijayendra, tested negative.
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