Another legislator of Odisha tests positive for COVID-19

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Sep 17, 2020 at 7:13 PM Updated On : Sep 17, 2020 at 7:14 PM

Bhubaneswar: Another legislator in Odisha tested positive for deadly COVID-19. Samples of BJP MLA from Puri Assembly constituency Jayanta Kumar Sarangi tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.

After being tested positive for coronavirus, Sarangi kept himself in home isolation.

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Yesterday BJP MLA from Malkangiri Aditya Madhi was hospitalised in AIIMS Bhubaneswar after being tested COVID-19.

Several MLAs including Susant Rout (Bhubaneswar-north), Ananta Narayan Jena (Bhubaneswar-central), Bikram Panda (Berhampur), Byomakesh Ray (Chandbali), Soumya Ranjan Patnaik (Khandapada) and Pradeep Maharathy (Pipili) had already tested positive for COVID-19.

This apart, School & Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash, Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain, Women and Child Development (WCD) and Mission Shakti Minister Tukuni Sahu, Tourism Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Handlooms, Textiles & Handicrafts Minister Padmini Dian, Higher Education and Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo and Rural Development and Labour Minister Susanta Singh contracted the viral infections.