Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain admitted to hospital, tests negative for Covid19
New Delhi, June 16: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday has been admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Superspeciality Hospital after he developed Covid-like symptoms and complained of difficulty in breathing. However, he has been tested negative for Covid. Although his condition is stable, Satyendar Jain still has fever.
"Due to high-grade fever and a sudden drop of my oxygen levels last night I have been admitted to RGSSH. Will keep everyone updated," Delhi minister tweeted Tuesday morning.
India records 10,667 new COVID19 cases, 380 deaths in last 24 hours; totally tally at 3,43,091
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This comes days after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was tested for the novel virus and fortunately tested negative for the disease.
With a surge in COVID-19 cases, Shah had on Sunday announced that testing would be doubled in Delhi in the next two days and subsequently increased by three times.
The meeting was also attended by Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan among other senior officials of the Centre as well as the city government.
Interacting
with
reporters
on
Monday,
Jain
asserted
that
Delhi
was
doing
"maximum
testing
earlier"
and
will
continue
to
do
more
testing
with
whatever
resources
are
at
its
disposal.
With
1,647
fresh
instances,
the
total
number
of
coronavirus
cases
in
the
city
reached
42,829.
The
death
toll
climbed
to
1,400
with
73
fresh
fatalities,
said
a
health
bulletin.