Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani will self-isolate for at least a week after a Congress MLA who attended a meeting with him on Tuesday tested positive for coronavirus later. Sources say that the Chief Minister does not have any symptoms. He was tested for the virus and the results are awaited.
The Chief Minister has canceled all the meetings scheduled for the next week and will run the state government through videoconferencing. Congress MLA Imran Khedawala had tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday evening. He along with some other MLAs met Rupani on Tuesday morning.
Khedawala was sitting about eight meters away from the Chief Minister in the meeting but he decides to self-isolate as a precautionary measure. Rupani is the first CM to go into Self-Isolation. On the other side, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are 11,439 Coronavirus cases in the country.
Gujarat has 737 cases and is next only after Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Rajasthan.
