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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Health Minister of the northern Indian State of Haryana Anil Vij, who was given a trial dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in November, tested positive for the virus on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Vij, who is in charge of several ministries including health, said on Twitter that he had contracted coronavirus.<\/p>\n

He urged people, who came in contact with him in recent days to undergo a test.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been tested COVID-19 positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am admitted in civil hospital Ambala cantonment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll those who have come in close contact to me are advised to get themselves tested for COVID-19,\u201d Vij wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Covaxin.<\/p>\n

He had earlier announced that he would be the first volunteer in his state for the vaccine.<\/p>\n

Haryana state has so far reported 240,841 cases of COVID-19 and 2,539 related deaths.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

India is in the grip of the ongoing COVID-19 and globally, it is the second worst-hit country by the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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