Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju tests positive for COVID-19

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New Delhi: Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Taking to Twitter, Rijiju wrote: "After getting repeated test for Covid-19, today my report has come out positive. I'm taking the advice of the Doctors. I request all those who have come in my contact recently to be observant, exercise self-quarantine and get themselves tested. I'm physically fit and fine."

After getting repeated test for Covid-19, today my report has come out positive. I'm taking the advice of the Doctors. I request all those who have come in my contact recently to be observant, exercise self-quarantine and get themselves tested. I'm physically fit and fine. — Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) April 17, 2021

Union Minister Smriti Irani and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan wished him a speedy recovery.