Union Minister V Muraleedharan tests negative for coronavirus

Union Minister For External Affairs and Parliament Affairs V Muralidharan who had gone into self-isolation at his house in New Delhi has tested negative for coronavirus. Murlidharan had attended a medical conference in Kerala last week and one of the doctors who attended the conference recently tested positive for COVID-19.

New Delhi: Union Minister V Muraleedharan tested negative for coronavirus on Tuesday.

The Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs had put himself under self-quarantine in New Delhi after he attended a meeting with doctors who came in contact with coronavirus patients in Kerala.

The Minister took to twitter to announce the news.

• Last Saturday I had visited Research Div. of a Medical Institute, whose Hospital later reported a #COVID19 +ve case. As a measure of abundant precaution I am in home quarantine since then.
  
  Have tested negative for #COVID19.
  
  No to panic! Yes to precaution!#IndiaFightsCorona

  — V. Muraleedharan (@MOS_MEA) March 17, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="

  Last Saturday I had visited Research Div. of a Medical Institute, whose Hospital later reported a #COVID19 +ve case. As a measure of abundant precaution I am in home quarantine since then.
  
  Have tested negative for #COVID19.
  
  No to panic! Yes to precaution!#IndiaFightsCorona

  — V. Muraleedharan (@MOS_MEA) March 17, 2020

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  Last Saturday I had visited Research Div. of a Medical Institute, whose Hospital later reported a #COVID19 +ve case. As a measure of abundant precaution I am in home quarantine since then.
  
  Have tested negative for #COVID19.
  
  No to panic! Yes to precaution!#IndiaFightsCorona

  — V. Muraleedharan (@MOS_MEA) March 17, 2020

The minister attended a meeting at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

The meeting was also attended by doctors who are now in home quarantine after a doctor, with travel history to Spain, had tested positive for COVID-19.

The doctor who had gone to Spain for a conference returned back on March 2 and he joined duty on March 8. After he developed symptoms he was put under home quarantine on March 12.

With a total of 12 fresh cases, the number of novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 126 on Tuesday, the Union health ministry said.

(ANI report)