Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Atul Garg, on Tuesday, tested positive for COVID-19. Garg requested that all those who came in contact with him recently to get tested for the disease.
"On August 15, RTPCR test was done and I had tested negative. Yesterday, in the rapid test conducted at around 9 pm, I tested positive. People who came in contact with me from August 16 to August 18 should get themselves tested," he said in a tweet in Hindi.
Two UP ministers, Kamal Rani Varun and Chetan Chauhan, recently succumbed to COVID-19.
