New Delhi: Four persons at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence in south Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Monday.
“Two people, including a cook, and two security guards at Pawar’s ‘Silver Oak’ residence in Mumba have tested positive for coronavirus,” the minister said.
He said Sharad Pawar was taken to Breach Candy Hospital here on Sunday for test and the results came out negative.
“He is safe and sound…but will ask him not to go on state tour for next some days,” Tope said. As a standard procedure, efforts were on to trace those who came in contact with the cook and security guards in their residential areas, he added.
Sharad Pawar goes into self-isolation
As a precaution, Pawar has gone into self-isolation for at least four days cutting off all public contact, IANS reported quoting his aide.
The deadly virus has not even spared the power corridors of the nation with even Chief Ministers and Central ministers contracting Covid-19.
Union home minister Amit Shah, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa and Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain were some other senior leaders who recently tested positive for Covid-19.
