Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP from Haryana Deepender Singh Hooda tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
Taking to Twitter, he said, “My Corona# Covid19 report has returned positive. As per the advice of doctors, other tests are being conducted,” Deepender, who is the son of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, in his tweet added that “with the prayers of all of you, I will recover soon. He also asked people who may have come in his contact during the past few days to isolate themselves and get tested.
मेरी कोरोना #COVID19 रिपोर्ट पॉजिटिव आई है। चिकित्सकों के निर्देश अनुसार बाक़ी के टेस्ट किए जा रहे हैं। आप सभी की दुआ से शीघ्र ही ठीक होकर आप सबके बीच वापस लौटूंगा।
जो लोग गत कुछ दिनों में मेरे संपर्क में आयें हैं, कृपया स्वयं आइसोलेट हों अपनी जाँच करवाएं।
— Deepender Singh Hooda (@DeependerSHooda) September 6, 2020
The 42-year-old, who is the only opposition MP from Haryana, is currently in Delhi and had recently toured the Baroda assembly constituency in Sonipat district in view of the upcoming by-poll held due to the death of Congress legislator Shri Krishan Hooda in April.
Other parliamentarians from Haryana who recently contracted COVID-19 are Union Minister of State Krishan Pal Gurjar (Faridabad), Sanjay Bhatia (Karnal), Brijendra Singh (Hisar) and Nayab Singh Saini (Kurukshetra) who are BJP Lok Sabha MPs.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar along with his Cabinet colleagues Ranjit Singh Chautala, J P Dalal, Mool Chand Sharma and Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta had also tested positive for the disease, earlier.
The state currently has over nearly 75,000 COVID-19 cases and over 780 fatalities.
