Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19 but is in healthiness, the vice chairman Secretariat said.
Naidu, 71, who is asymptomatic, has been advised home quarantine.
In the evening, Naidu had addressed a virtual event on post-COVID healthcare where he urged the private sector to dig in to enhance healthcare system in rural India.
“The vice chairman of India who underwent a routine COVID-19 test today morning has been tested positive. he’s however, asymptomatic and in healthiness,” the Secretariat tweeted.
His wife Usha Naidu has been tested negative and is in self-isolation, the tweet said.
Some union ministers have tested positive for COVID within the recent past. Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi became the primary union minister to succumb to the virus.
