Telangana home minister tests positive for Covid-19

HYDERABAD: Telangana home minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali was on Sunday admitted to a corporate hospital in Hyderabad after he tested positive for Covid, health department officials said.

The minister, who attended a series of programmes at the police parade grounds in the city last week, got tested for Covid-19 three days ago, after his gunman tested positive last week.

“On Sunday, the test result proved that he was positive for the virus. He immediately got admitted to a corporate hospital in Jubilee Hills,” an official in the health department said.

Ali is the first cabinet minister in the state to test positive for Covid-19.

Earlier, three TRS MLAS gunmen and personal assistants of at least three ministers tested positive.