Ronan O’Connell, CNN
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee underwent coronavirus tests,
“During a hospital visit for a separate procedure, I tested positive for Covid-19 today,” Mukherjee wrote in a message on his official Twitter account Monday.
“I ask others who contacted me last week to isolate the property and take the Covid-19 test.”
President of Mukherjee India from 2012 to 2017, after a career in which he held a number of government leadership positions.
India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah announced on 2 August that he had conducted tests to detect the virus and B.S. Yediyurappa, the leading minister of Karnataka state in southern India, announced his diagnosis the same day.
India has more than 2.2 million reported cases of viruses and 44,386 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.