VK Sasikala tests positive for COVID-19

A day after being shifted to Bengaluru's Victoria Hospital, former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala tested positive for COVID-19. She had complained of breathing ailments and fever.

Bengaluru: Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala has tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, doctors treating the 63-year-old jailed aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said.

"Sasikala, an aide of former Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa, has tested positive for COVID-19," said Bengaluru's Victoria Hospital in its statement.

Earlier today, she was taken to Victoria Hospital from Bowring hospital in view of the ineffectiveness CT scan and security at Bowring Hospital.

Earlier, Shashikala's adopted son Dinakaran came to visit Sasikala in Victoria hospital. She has breathing problems, sputum problem and more. He requested fans and supporters not to come to the hospital to visit her till she is discharged.

Sasikala who also suffers from hypertension, diabetes, and hypothyroidism complained of fever and breathing difficulties yesterday.

Earlier, she underwent treatment at Bengaluru Central Jail hospital but was later taken to the Bowring Hospital for a second opinion, media reports said.

Sasikala, lodged at the Parappana Agrahara Prison here, was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February 2017 in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case.

Her illness comes at a time when she is just a week away to walk free from prison on January 27.