New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to AIIMS with a mild fever on Monday afternoon.
Singh, 88, has been admitted to the AIIMS trauma centre here, which is a dedicated COVID facility, sources said, adding his condition is stable.
They said Singh had a mild fever in the morning and later tested positive for COVID-19.
The doctors are monitoring his condition.
Singh had taken both the doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
On Sunday, Dr Singh had urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ‘resist the temptation to look at the absolute number of vaccinations and focus on the percentage of the population vaccinated’.
In a letter to PM Modi, the senior Congress leader had also listed out suggestions for consideration ‘in a spirit of constructive cooperation’, that included publicizing firm orders for doses placed on different vaccine producers and allowing states more flexibility to plan vaccination roll-outs.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan responded to the former PM’s letter to PM Modi over the COVID-19 situation in the country today and alleged that Congress-ruled slate governments were engaged in spreading doubts regarding the efficacy of the vaccines, thereby playing with the lives of the countrymen.
In a reply to former Prime Minister and Congress leader Dr Manmohan Singh’s letter listing out suggestions for consideration ‘in a spirit of constructive cooperation’, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to ‘resist the temptation to look at the absolute number of vaccinations and focus on the percentage of the population vaccinated’, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said history shall be kinder to him if his offer and valuable advice was followed by his party members.
(with ANI inputs)
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