Bengaluru, Aug 3: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa tweeted late Sunday night that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
In a brief post on Twitter, Mr Yediyurappa said that he was fine but had been hospitalised on the advice of doctors. While his daughter Padmavathi has also tested positive for the virus, the Chief Minister's son, Vijayendra, has tested negative.
The Chief Minister's media team has said he has been admitted to Manipal Hospital. Mr Yediyurappa, 77, also requested those who had come in contact with him to be wary of Covid symptoms and self-isolate.
"I have tested positive for coronavirus. Whilst I am fine, I am being hospitalised as a precaution on recommendation of doctors. I request those who have come in contact with me recently to be observant and exercise self-quarantine," the Chief Minister's tweet read.
The testing of the Chief Minister was done as part of the routine weekly tests he undergoes along with his staff. The results of Mr Yediyurappa's gunmen and security staff, around 50 of them, are expected today.
Staff members at Mr Yediyurappa's home office, Krishna, had tested positive early last month.
At that time Mr Yediyurappa said: "I am going to discharge my duties from home from today for the next few days in view of some of the staff in the office-cum-residence Krishna testing positive".
Mr Yediyurappa had also met Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala in Bengaluru on Friday. State Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai was also present at the meeting.
The Chief Minister is the second high-profile political leader to confirm testing positive for COVID-19 today; hours earlier Union Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted similar news.
Mr Shah, 55, too said he was "fine" and that he had been hospitalised on the "advice of doctors".
The minister also asked all those who had been in contact with him over the last few days to "please isolate yourself and get your tests done".
The Home Minister was at a cabinet meet last week, at which top colleagues, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman were present.
All Covid norms, including social distancing, were followed at that meeting, sources said.
Last month Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tested positive for the virus as well. He has been in hospital since then and tweeted today to say that he was well and, minutes after Mr Yediyurappa tweeted his Covid positive status, he posted a get-well-soon message.
"I pray to God for your speedy recovery, Yediyurappaji," Mr Chouhan wrote.
Mr Chouhan had tweeted a message for Mr Shah too. "Home Minister Amit Shah, may God help you recover soon, so you can serve the nation with full energy. Our best wishes are with you," his tweet read.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also tweeted, saying: "I wish BS Yediyurappa a speedy recovery and to return with good health to continue his work for the people".
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit also tested positive today, Chennai's Kauvery Hospital, where he has been admitted, said. He is asymptomatic and clinically stable.
On Sunday morning the virus claimed the life of a UP minister - Kamal Rani Varun, 62, died at Lucknow's Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
Over the last 24 hours, 54,735 cases were reported, taking the total number of cases to 17,50,723, data from the Health Ministry showed.
The continuing spike in cases over the past weeks comes as India gradually re-opens its economy after more than four months of the world's strictest lockdown. Unlock3, the third phase of easing of restrictions, came into effect on Saturday.
It took just 185 days for India to cross the 17-lakh mark after the first case was reported in Kerala in January; it took 110 days to record the first 1 lakh cases. More than 60 per cent of total cases in the country and over 50 per cent of total deaths have been recorded in July.
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Addressing a protest in Shivajina gar against the murder of RSS worker Rudresh R by two motorcycle-borne men, Suresh Kumar said if police are unable to provide protection to RSS workers, they should be allowed to carry weapons.
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RSS is the only enemy of India.
RSS should be allowed to wear pants. They look like mentally backward people.
Muslims will manage to get back RSS weapons.
Interesting to hear the jokes of kothi Ann...
Sanghi goon out of India.....staying in Buddha land and disrupting the unity of Indians.....soon should be behind bars....jai hind....
@Naren
Don't think that staying in singapore. And giving communal lines. Will get away from this. Ur each and every comment might be monitoring.
Once police catch u, then ur life will be behind the bars.
Think before u com
@Naren
Don't think that staying in singapore. And giving communal lines. Will get away from this. Ur each and every comment might be monitoring.
Once police catch u, then ur life will be behind the bars.
Think before u com
@Naren
WHY ??? THEY DONT HAVE GUN OF THEIR OWN. I THINK EVEN NAREN TOO WANTS THE GUN. HE ALSO DONT HAVE. POOR CHEDDY?
Donkey never disobedient to its master... whatever loaded on it, it will take...
Similarly there are few human beings despite lot of evidence of the cheddis involvement in deception... They never want to accept the REALITY of their deception and want to continue like the donkeys take their load.. with their mind filled with lies.
We say wake up guys.. look outside the cheddi installed software in your mind and use your God given intellect.
An intelligent human being will understand when shown with proof... and many times cheddis were caught of their dirty activities of doing their evil acts and blaming others...
Karkera exposed their evil acts...
Writers too exposed them
Bomb blast in their own cell
Saffron IT cell exposed with their fake display of nationalism
JNU video tampered
cheddi wearing burka caught red handed last week...
Cow business exposed too
Pakistan flag hositing too caught red handed
Fake FB account too caught red handed...
Only God knows how much bombs they keep in their own temples to create unrest in the society...
Naren, you must be Godse's elder brother....calm down guy....we all know what is RSS all about.....
No wonder. Over and again they openly admitted that they are the manufaturers of terror factories.
Jihadis are having honey moon period as it is khan grace govt as this govt licks their feet ....but everyday is not Sunday ....if jihadis are so powerful...they must directly fight ...not from behind ....if jihadis were so powerful they would have ruled whole world thru oic ...but looking at their mujra infront of Israel only we can make out hahaha....if sangh decides jihadist forces shud run for cover like how they ran in gujarath and muzzaffar Nagar ...we are showing maximum restraint becoz we honour our constitution and respect rule of land....bholo Bharath mata ki jai ..jai sangh parivar ....
We already carry it inside our jockeys......what about chaddeez...if they don't have then why they are wearing it..
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@Brother Venki Cracked a good Joke.Joke of the Millennium.
Do we have another sample like VENKI in India.Please let us know.We need to send to the Kargil area to entertain our Soldiers.So that they can relax their mind by listening such Jokes.
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What a funny guys they have with them. Mangana Kaiyalli Manikya...
Give them rights to allow Weapons as well allow them to Shoot who ever they wants.
Aur kya kya chayiye? Ek lambi list karo aur khadey hojao line mey.. Dharpok insaan.. LOL .
Some are getting Y guards, some are for Z guards.. Some need x guards.. Until when you chaddis will keep begging??
Hahaha. Saale Darrpok. No doubt they are criminals. Because they are always afraid of death. Noorukala iliyagi baalokkinta mooru kaala huliyagi baalode melu.
Someone was barking before that 60% of the police are from RRSS....
Where are they NOW ... why dont they Protect Your own men even after we citizens pay from our tax money for their jobs.... U cheddis are useless in taking responsibility to protect the society and now they dont even able to protect their own members..
Are the 60% turned their hearts and became good and thought of helping people rather than continuing supporting the cheddi evils... if it is, then it will be good for the people and the society...
Dear,
Please now itself list out your other demands, we will support for police commissioner permission.
Hope your request is to only for your so called brahmin community ?
Disaster, dont forget that they killed father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi, cant trust them at all....
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