Union Minister Prakash Javadekar Tests Positive For Covid-19, Asks Recent Contacts To Get Tested

<p><strong>New Delhi: </strong>Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Friday tested Covid-19 positive and urged the people who have come in contact with him in the last two to three days to get themselves tested.</p> <p>The Union Minister confirmed the news on the micro-blogging platform Twitter.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ | <span style="color: #e03e2d;"><a style="color: #e03e2d;" href="https://ift.tt/3wZE5O2 Lockdown: Yogi Govt Imposes Complete Lockdown On Sunday; Essential Services Exempted</a></span><br /><br /></strong>&ldquo;I have tested #COVID positive today. All those who have come in contact with me in the last 2-3 days may please get themselves tested,&rdquo; he tweeted.</p> <p>&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;I have tested &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#COVID&lt;/a&gt; positive today. All those who have come in contact with me in the last 2-3 days may please get themselves tested.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PrakashJavdekar/status/1383027133266599936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 16, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>Meanwhile, India added over two lakh new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country&rsquo;s toll to over 1.4 crores.</p> <p>Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa earlier in the day tested Covid-19 positive for the second time and has been admitted to the Ramaiah Memorial hospital in the state capital Bengaluru.</p> <p>Earlier on Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tested positive for coronavirus and has isolated himself since then.&nbsp;Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav too tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week and is in self-isolation.</p> <p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Senior Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy was also found positive for Covid-19.</p> <p>Earlier on April 7, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb tested positive.&nbsp;Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja contracted the infection&nbsp;on April 4.</p> <p>Earlier on March 20, Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray had also tested positive for the virus.</p>

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