After CM Vijayan, now Oommen Chandy tests COVID-19 positive
The former Chief Minister had travelled across Kerala on a rigorous election campaign ever since the candidature list was announced during mid-March.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy have tested positive for coronavirus. He has been resting at his home, Puthupally House at Poojappura here. The health department authorities are planning to shift him to the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College on Thursday night itself.
The former Chief Minister had travelled across Kerala on a rigorous election campaign ever since the candidature list was announced during mid-March.
Vijayan, Chandy test Covid positive
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 : Two days after the Kerala Assembly polls, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his predecessor and Congress leader Oommen Chandy both tested Covid positive on Thursday.
While Vijayan himself wrote on his Facebook page that he has turned Covid positive and is getting himself admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College, Chandy s family is preferring to keep him at his house but sources close to him say he might be moved to a private hospital shortly.
On polling day on Tuesday, Vijayan s daughter had turned positive, but she cast her vote wearing a PPE kit and her husband Mohammed Riyaz, who contested the assembly polls, has also now turned positive.
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