COVID-19: Senior Congress MLA H K Patil tests positive

Bengaluru: Senior Congress MLA in Karnataka H K Patil on Monday said he had tested positive for coronavirus.

“I have been tested positive for #Covid19. I am asymptomatic but quarantined myself for 10 days,” Patil, a former minister and Congress in-charge of Maharashtra, tweeted this morning.

Expressing hope that he would be perfectly alright soon, Patil requested all those who had come in his contact in the last few days to get themselves tested as a precaution.

He is the third MLA to have attended the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly session and tested positive for COVID-19.

Prior to him, Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol and Gandhinagar MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao tested positive for coronavirus among those who had attended the assembly session recently.