Panic has set in after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party president and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and a couple of Ministers and top bureaucrats tested positive for coronavirus.
Yogi had isolated himself on Tuesday after some officials in his contact tested positive for the infection. “After initial symptoms, I got myself tested. My report is positive. I am in self-isolation and following doctors’ advice. I am doing all works virtually,” he tweeted, advising those who came in his contact to get themselves tested and take precautions.
There was a panic in the air after the CM tested positive. “When will the Government announce a lockdown? Is it waiting for Lucknow to perish before it goes for strict measures,” a section officer in the Labour Department told this reporter on Wednesday.
Meanwhile a team of Health Department officials air-dashed to Ahmedabad and returned with 25,000 shots of Remdesivir injection, considered a key antiviral drug in the fight against Covid-19.
