Coronavirus Positive Politicians

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari has joined a list of politicians who have tested positive for COVID-19. In a tweet this morning, Mr Tiwari said he is isolating himself after he tested positive.

Veteran politician and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah was on Wednesday discharged from a Srinagar hospital, where he was admitted last week as a precautionary measure after testing positive for COVID-19, officials said.

French President Emmanuel Macron became the latest national leader to test positive for coronavirus on Thursday, forcing several other European politicians into quarantine as the continent becomes the first region to pass 500,000 deaths.

Pakistan's leading opposition politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee, elder statesman and one of the country's most respected politicians, has died at 84. The former President, who tested positive for coronavirus, had been in coma after a brain surgery earlier this month.

Krishan Pal Gurjar, Minister of State (MoS) for Social Justice and Empowerment, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Several politicians, noted personalities and social media users took to Twitter on Sunday to send across their get-well-soon wishes to Union Minister Amit Shah, who revealed he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday announced that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease and quarantined himself, becoming the latest senior politician in the country to be hit by the deadly virus.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's brother Shehbaz Sharif, chief of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the latest top politician in Pakistan to be infected by the deadly virus on a day when the number of COVID-19 cases in the country touched 119,536.

Tamil Nadu politician J Anbazhagan, one of the DMK's most prominent faces in the state, died in Chennai this morning after battling coronavirus for over a week. Anbazhagan, 61, was admitted to hospital on June 2 over "severe acute respiratory distress" and had tested positive for COVID-19 at the time. He was placed on ventilator support a day later...

Amid controversy over discrepancies in negligence case filed against Covid-19 positive singer Kanika Kapoor, a letter - purportedly written by Chief Medical Officer Of Lucknow - has emerged that seeks correction in the first information report filed on Friday. CMO Narendra Agarwal, however, has refused to comment on the letter, calling it "fake".

Singer Kanika Kapoor, who shared on social media on Friday that she has tested positive for the highly contagious novel coronavirus or COVID-19, has been accused of "negligence" in a First Information Report (FIR) filed by the police based on a complaint by the Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow. A dinner that she attended in Lucknow has caused a sca...

After singer Kanika Kapoor shared on social media on Friday that she had tested positive for coronavirus, a dinner she attended in Lucknow has caused a scare among politicians all the way to Delhi, including for parliament and the President's House.

A senior Australian politician tested positive for the new coronavirus and entered hospital quarantine Friday, days after returning from Washington where he met Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General William Barr.

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari has joined a list of politicians who have tested positive for COVID-19. In a tweet this morning, Mr Tiwari said he is isolating himself after he tested positive.

Veteran politician and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah was on Wednesday discharged from a Srinagar hospital, where he was admitted last week as a precautionary measure after testing positive for COVID-19, officials said.

French President Emmanuel Macron became the latest national leader to test positive for coronavirus on Thursday, forcing several other European politicians into quarantine as the continent becomes the first region to pass 500,000 deaths.

Pakistan's leading opposition politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee, elder statesman and one of the country's most respected politicians, has died at 84. The former President, who tested positive for coronavirus, had been in coma after a brain surgery earlier this month.

Krishan Pal Gurjar, Minister of State (MoS) for Social Justice and Empowerment, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Several politicians, noted personalities and social media users took to Twitter on Sunday to send across their get-well-soon wishes to Union Minister Amit Shah, who revealed he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday announced that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease and quarantined himself, becoming the latest senior politician in the country to be hit by the deadly virus.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's brother Shehbaz Sharif, chief of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the latest top politician in Pakistan to be infected by the deadly virus on a day when the number of COVID-19 cases in the country touched 119,536.

Tamil Nadu politician J Anbazhagan, one of the DMK's most prominent faces in the state, died in Chennai this morning after battling coronavirus for over a week. Anbazhagan, 61, was admitted to hospital on June 2 over "severe acute respiratory distress" and had tested positive for COVID-19 at the time. He was placed on ventilator support a day later...

Amid controversy over discrepancies in negligence case filed against Covid-19 positive singer Kanika Kapoor, a letter - purportedly written by Chief Medical Officer Of Lucknow - has emerged that seeks correction in the first information report filed on Friday. CMO Narendra Agarwal, however, has refused to comment on the letter, calling it "fake".

Singer Kanika Kapoor, who shared on social media on Friday that she has tested positive for the highly contagious novel coronavirus or COVID-19, has been accused of "negligence" in a First Information Report (FIR) filed by the police based on a complaint by the Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow. A dinner that she attended in Lucknow has caused a sca...

After singer Kanika Kapoor shared on social media on Friday that she had tested positive for coronavirus, a dinner she attended in Lucknow has caused a scare among politicians all the way to Delhi, including for parliament and the President's House.

A senior Australian politician tested positive for the new coronavirus and entered hospital quarantine Friday, days after returning from Washington where he met Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General William Barr.