New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to undergo test for Covid-19, after Nritya Gopal Das, the head of the Ram Janmabhoomi trust in Ayodhya, tested positive for coronavirus.
Das had the shared stage with the Prime Minister during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ram temple on 5 August.
Gopal Das, 82, was among the five people on the stage at the grand ceremony at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh last week.
The others on the stage were Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Governor Anandiben Patel and Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Nritya Gopal Das is currently in Mathura. “We were informed that Maharaj-ji has some fever, so we sent a team of doctors and they investigated and gave medicines . The fever is normal. He has mild breathlessness and we checked his oxygen level. It is saturated. There is nothing serious. We checked for coronavirus, did antigen test and there is positivity,” Sarvagya Ram Mishra, District Magistrate of Mathura, told the media.
He added that the process to identify those who had come in contact with Das in the recent past has started.