Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar tests positive for Covid-19

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is mitted in a hospital here on vice of doctors.

In a mess, Pawar said his health condition is fine.

"I have tested positive for COVID-19. My health condition is fine. As a precautionary measure I have mitted self to Breach Candy Hospital on vice of doctors," NCP leer said.

He also said party workers and citizens need t worry about his health and that he will be back among all after a brief period of rest.

On Thursday, Pawar tested negative for coronavirus but was under home quarantine as a precautionary measure.

In last few months, over a dozen Maharashtra ministers have tested positive for viral infection.

y include Jitendra Awh (housing), Ashok Chavan (public works department), Dhananjay Munde (social justice), Varsha Gaikw (school education), Eknath Shinde (urban development) and Nitin Raut (energy).

Ministers Hasan Mushrif (rural development), Sunil Kedar (animal husbandry), Balasaheb Patil (cooperation), Aslam Shaikh (ports, textile), Bacchu Ku (MoS for school education), Abdul Sattar (MoS-rural development), Sanjay Bansode (MoS-environment) and Vishwajeet Kam (MoS for cooperation) h also contracted COVID-19.

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