New Delhi (NVI): V Muraleedharan, Union Minister of State for External Affairs, today tweeted that he has tested negative for novel coronavirus.
“Last Saturday I had visited Research Div. of a Medical Institute, whose Hospital later reported a #COVID19 +ve case. As a measure of abundant precaution I am in home quarantine since then. Have tested negative for #COVID19. No to panic! Yes to precaution!,” the MoS, MEA said in a tweet.
The minister had visited Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMT) in Thiruvananthapuram on March 14.
After knowing that a doctor there had tested positive for the virus on returning from Spain, the minister had then placed himself in self-quarantine.
The Minister of State has also been keeping away from the Parliament and did not attend the BJP Parliamentary meeting in Delhi today.
India has reported a total of 125 positive cases until now, according to the Health Ministry.
