UPDATED: April 29, 2021 22:09 IST
A COVID-19 patient waits in an ambulance outside at RUHS College of Medical Sciences Hospital, amid shortage of oxygen and beds due to surge in coronavirus cases, in Jaipur, April 27. (PTI)
On April 29, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19, a day after his wife Sunita had also tested positive. The couple is asymptomatic and has been vaccinated. A day earlier, he had wished Dushyant Singh, MP from Jhalawar-Baran and son of former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, a speedy recovery from Covid. During the first wave, a number of ministers, MPs and MLAs from Rajasthan had tested positive, with the pandemic also reaching chief minister’s office and residence. The reemergence of that trend assumes more serious proportions as medical infrastructure in Rajasthan is currently nearly saturated in taking care of Covid-affected patients.