Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala was among 1,206 new Covid positive patients on Tuesday which pushed the infection tally to 136,115. Eighteen more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 1509, according to the health department's daily bulletin. Dushyant said he has tested positive for coronavirus, adding that he was asymptomatic and feeling alright. The Haryana Deputy CM urged people who had met him during the past week to get themselves tested.
"My Covid-19 test report has returned positive. There are no symptoms of COVID-19 like fever etc, but as the report is positive, I am self-isolating," he said in a message on Twitter.
As many as 1690 patients recovered on Tuesday, taking the overall recoveries to 1,23,286. The tally of active cases stood at 11,320 while the recovery rate was 90.57 per cent.