Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday tested COVID-19 positive and shall remain in self-isolation for a week. The official Twitter account of Vice President of India shared the news.
The tweet reads, "The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, who is in Hyderabad, tested COVID positive today. He has decided to remain in self-isolation for a week. He has advised all those who came in contact with him to isolate themselves and get tested."
India's daily COVID-19 curve showed marginal improvement today as the country reported 3.33 lakh cases, which is marginally lower than yesterday. With a tally of 3.92 crore cases, India is the second worst-hit country after the US.
The active cases comprise 5.57 per cent of total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has decreased to 93.18 per cent.
CommentsThe daily positivity rate - the share of coronavirus tests that return positive and considered a key marker of the pandemic's status - is slightly up from 17.22% to 17.78% while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 16.65 per cent.
