Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tests positive for COVID-19, says mother, sister on same boat
He took to Twitter and wrote, After waiting two days for a test appointment and another day & a half for the results, I finally have confirmation:
New Delhi: MP Shashi Tharoor took to social media to inform that he, his sister and 85-year-old mother have tested positive for the coronavirus.
He took to Twitter and wrote, After waiting two days for a test appointment and another day & a half for the results, I finally have confirmation: I’m #Covid positive. Hoping to deal with it in a “positive” frame of mind, with rest, steam & plenty of fluids. My sister& 85 year old mother are in the same boat.
After waiting two days for a test appointment and another day & a half for the results, I finally have confirmation: I’m #Covid positive. Hoping to deal with it in a “positive” frame of mind, with rest, steam & plenty of fluids. My sister& 85 year old mother are in the same boat.
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 21, 2021
He further wrote, Folks should know that my sister has had two doses of the Pfizer vaccine in California and my mother & I took our second Covishield shot on April 8. So we have every reason to hope that though vaccines cannot prevent infection, they will moderate the impact of the #Covid virus.
Tharoor’s positive report comes after a spate of infections among Congress leaders. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and earlier Randeep Singh Surjewala and Digvijaya Singh had tested positive for coronavirus.
Tharoor joined a long list of Congress leaders who were recently infected with the viral disease including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior party leader Anand Sharma and former party president Rahul Gandhi.
Meanwhile, nearly 3 lakh new COVID-19 cases and over 2,000 deaths were reported in India on Wednesday, a record-high since the pandemic broke out last year.
As per the union health ministry, as many as 2,95,041 new COVID-19 cases and 2,023 deaths were reported, taking the total cases to 1,56,16,130, including 21,57,538 active cases.
As many as 1,32,76,039 recoveries have been reported so far, out of which 1,67,457 were reported in the last 24 hours.