New Delhi August 10: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has clarified that Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who had announced last Sunday that he had tested positive for coronavirus, has not undergone any other COVID-19 test thus far.
The ministry’s clarification came after BJP MP Manoj Tiwari tweeted today that the Home Minister had tested negative for the infection.”Home Minister Amit Shah ji’s COVID report came negative”, the BJP MP from Delhi had tweeted today.
The tweet, however, was later deleted.
Earlier, Shah, the former BJP president, had announced last Sunday that he was COVID-19 positive, urging all those who had been in contact with him, to quarantine and get themselves tested for the virus.
Following this, a host of people, including Union Ministers Babul Supriyo and Ravi Shankar Prasad, had gone into self-isolation. Both, however, later tested negative.
The Home Minister is being treated at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital, where he was admitted after testing positive last week.
Notably, Shah’s announcement of testing positive for coronavirus came on a day several BJP leaders, including Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, too, tested positive for it. Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh also tested positive on the day while state cabinet minister Kamal Rani Varun succumbed to it.
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, himself a former BJP leader, had tested positive on the day.
#COVID19 test of Home Minister Amit Shah has not been conducted so far: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Official https://t.co/8UaeUtNgBp
— ANI (@ANI) August 9, 2020