Yediyurappa tests positive twice in eight months

Hours after chairing the Covid review meeting, Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday.

He tested positive for the second time in eight months. In August 2020, he was tested positive and had undergone treatment in Manipal hospital. Yediyurappa will be shifted to Manipal hospital from Ramaiah Memorial hospital in Bengaluru where he was admitted following a fever.

In a tweet, he said, “I have tested positive for Covid. Whilst I am fine, I am being hospitalised as a precaution on the recommendation of doctors. I request those who have come in contact with me recently to be observant and exercise self quarantine.”

For the last fortnight, Yediyurappa had been campaigning hard in by-elections to three seats — Belgaum Lok Sabha, Maski Assembly seat in Raichur and Basavakalyan Assembly seat in Bidar district.