Barely two weeks after being administered a trial vaccine shot of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij Saturday tested positive of the novel coronavirus.
Vij, who is in charge of several ministries including health, said on Twitter that he had contracted coronavirus.
“I have been tested COVID-19 positive” Vij wrote.
In November, 67-year-old Vij was administered a trial dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as part of the third phase trial of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin.
He had earlier announced that he would be the first volunteer in his state for the vaccine.
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Haryana state has so far reported 240,841 cases of COVID-19 and 2,539 related deaths.
On Saturday morning, the federal health ministry said the number of COVID-19 cases in the country has reached 9,608,211 and the death toll has risen to 139,700.
India is in the grip of the ongoing COVID-19 and globally, it is the second worst-hit country by the pandemic.
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