Bengaluru: Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa has tested positive for COVID 19 on Friday. According to Karnataka Chief Minister's Office (CMO), he will be shifted to Manipal hospital from Ramaiah Memorial hospital where he was admitted earlier today.
He held an emergency meeting over the rising Covid situation in the state, at his residence earlier today. The Karnataka CM tweeted, 'I have tested positive for coronavirus. Whilst I am fine, I am being hospitalised as a precaution on the recommendation of doctors. I request those who have come in contact with me recently to be observant and exercise self-quarantine'.
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He was suffering from a fever for the last two days, during the election campaign in Belagavi. Today Chief minister finished the emergency meeting regarding rising covid cases in the state and went for a check-up in MS Ramiah hospital where the test results came positive. Currently, he is being treated in Manipal hospital in Old Airport Road.
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This is the second time he has tested positive for Covid. Earlier, he had tested positive on August 3rd 2020 and was treated in Manipal Hospital. The 77-year-old BJP leader had taken his first dose of vaccine on March 12th, and the second dose is still due.
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