Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has self-quarantined himself after a Congress legislator he met tested positive for coronavirus disease on Tuesday.
The chief minister’s office said that Rupani will not meet anyone for a week. Rupani on Tuesday morning held a meeting with Congress MLA Imran Khedawala, who later in the evening tested positive for the highly contagious disease.
“Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani is fit and fine. Medical experts Dr Atul Patel and Dr RK Patel tested him today and have confirmed that CM has no symptoms for now. But as per safety measures, no outsider is allowed at his residence,” Ashwani Kumar, the CM’s secretary, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
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Rupani will run the state administration through video conferences and by making phone calls, Kumar said. Meanwhile, two more people succumbed to COVID-19 in Gujarat, taking the death toll in the state to 30, the state health department said on Wednesday.