Petlad MLA tests positive

Anand: Congress MLA from Petlad Niranjan Patel tested positive of Covid-19 on Sunday. Patel, a senior Congress MLA from Anand district, has been admitted at Ahmedabad’s CIMS Hospital.
Sources said that Patel had developed symptoms like fever and cough before couple of days after which he was already being treated as Covid-19 suspect.
“All the necessary precautions like sanitising his house in Petlad were already taken by us,” said Dr Mahendra Chhari, chief district health officer of Anand district. Patel’s samples were collected at Petlad civil hospital after which he tested positive. After that he was admitted at Ahmedabad hospital. tnn