New Delhi, Dec 28 (UNI) Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19.

He asked people who came in contact with him to get themselves tested at the earliest.

Taking to his twitter account, Mr Choubey said, "After getting initial symptoms of corona I got myself tested for Covid today and the report came back positive. My health is fine and I'm following all the guidelines in home isolation as prescribed by doctors."

India with the continuing downward trend in the daily spike of nCoV cases on Monday clocked a fresh rise of 20,021 new infections during the past 24 hours.

With the latest spike in cases , the COVID case tally of the country as now reached 1,02,07,871, according to the Union Health Ministry update.

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