Congress Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Tests Positive For COVID-19

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has tested positive for COVID-19.

He took to the micro-blogging site Twitter on Tuesday and confirmed the same.

"I have tested covid positive today and am under home quarantine," he tweeted.

Earlier this month, Congress president Sonia Gandhi too was tested positive for Covid-19 infection.

"Congress President, Smt Sonia Gandhi has been meeting leaders & activists over last week, some of whom have been found Covid positive. Congress President had developed mild fever & Covid symptoms last evening. On testing, she has been found to be Covid positive", Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had said in a tweet.

Later, following the COVID complications, she was admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital. However, she was declared stable by the doctors.

Meanwhile, India on Tuesday registered 9,923 fresh infections of COVID-19 and 17 fatalities, a marginal decline in the infections in the last 24 hours.

As per official data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India reported 7,293 recoveries at the rate of 98.61 percent in the last 24 hours.

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