Coronavirus: Maharashtra Housing minister hospitalised for high fever, high BP

Shiv Kumar
Tribune News Service
Mumbai, April 22

Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad was admitted to a private hospital on Wednesday after he complained of a high fever and high blood pressure, sources said.

Awahad, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, was rushed to a hospital on Wednesday morning before being moved to another facility.

He had previously isolated himself after his security staff and a journalist he interacted with positive for coronavirus. In all, 14 people he had come into contact with have tested positive. The minister said in a tweet last week that his test came back negative but that he was quarantining himself as a precaution.

The minister was interacting with people in his constituency Mumbra-Kalwa and was overseeing supply of relief material to people affected by the lockdown before his security staff tested positive.

According to health department officials here, Awhad’s five security personnel, three constables posted at his residence, his cook, a television journalist and his cameraman and some party workers had tested positive for the virus earlier.

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