Odisha Assembly Session Begins Tomorrow: 42 Tested COV+ So Far

Bhubaneswar:  While Monsson Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly is set to begin tomorrow, total 42 MLAs have so far contracted COVID-19 with one more legislator testing positive for the virus today.Swab sample of MLA Umakanta Samantaray of Satyabadi  in Puri district has come out positive today. The legislator took to Twitter to inform this and urged everyone, who have come in contact with him in the last couple of days, to isolate themselves.Besides, MLA Sanatana Bijuli of Badasahi in Mayurbhanj district was admitted to AIIMS Bhubaneswar today for the treatment of the disease.The 42 COVID-19 infected MLAs, include Susant Rout (Bhubaneswar-north), Ananta Narayan Jena (Bhubaneswar-central), Bikram Panda (Berhampur), Byomakesh Ray (Chandbali), Soumya Ranjan Patnaik (Khandapada), Pradeep Maharathy (Pipili), Shankar Oram (Biramitrapur), Aditya Madhi (Malkangiri), Women and Child Development Minister Tukuni Sahu, Tourism Minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts Minister Padmini Dian, Higher Education Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo and Labour Minister Susanta Singh. Besides, three MPs  have also been infected by the virus. They are Suresh Pujari (Bargarh), Manjulata Mandal (Bhadrak) and Ramesh Majhi (Nabarangpur).

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