Coronavirus: Another TRS MLA Tests Positive

People in the state are scared to move out of their homes with the doctors, police, journalists and public representatives being tested positive for coronavirus. Days after the Jangaon and Nizamabad rural MLA infected with the virus, another MLA Ganesh Gupta from Nizamabad urban tested positive for the virus on Monday.

Gupta has undergone coronavirus tests in a private hospital after he fell sick and tested positive. At present, he is undergoing treatment. The officials have launched efforts to identify the primary contacts of the MLA. His family members, officials and other people who worked with him in the past few days were sent to quarantine.

MLA Ganesh is learnt to have met Muthireddy Yadagiri Reddy and is suspected to have contracted the virus from him.

It is to be notified that health minister Eatala Rajender’s OSD, Harish Rao’s PA and Bonthu Rammohan’s driver had also tested positive for coronavirus.