Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu tests positive for Covid, advised home quarantine

Naidu underwent Covid-19 test today morning and was found to be infected. He is, however, asymptomatic and in good health.

An official does a thermal screening of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu in Parliament House in New Delhi as a part of the measures to tackle coronavirus on 18 March 2020 | Arun Sharma | PTI

New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19, the Vice President Secretariat said.

It said Naidu, 71, is asymptomatic and in good health.

“The Vice President of India who underwent a routine COVID-19 test today morning has been tested positive. He is however, asymptomatic and in good health,” the Secretariat tweeted.

Naidu has been advised home quarantine.

His wife Usha Naidu has been tested negative and is in self-isolation, the tweet said.