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UP health minister tests positive for COVID-19

Source: PTI   -  Edited By: Utkarsh Mishra
August 18, 2020 16:06 IST
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Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Atul Garg, said on Tuesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

 

Garg requested all those who came in contact with him recently to get tested for the disease.

'On August 15, RTPCR test was done and I had tested negative. Yesterday, in the rapid test conducted at around 9 pm, I tested positive.

'People who came in contact with me from August 16 to August 18 should get themselves tested,' he said in a tweet in Hindi.

Two UP ministers, Kamal Rani Varun and Chetan Chauhan, recently succumbed to COVID-19.

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