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Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan tests positive for COVID-19

Chavan is the second minister in the Maharashtra cabinet to contract the infection

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and sitting state Public Works Department minister Ashok Chavan tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 25

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and sitting state Public Works Department minister Ashok Chavan tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

Chavan is the second minister in the Maharashtra cabinet to contract the infection.

The first was NCP’s Jitendra Awhad, who handles the housing portfolio.

Chavan was taken to a Nanded hospital this morning and is learnt to be in the process of being brought to Mumbai for disease management.

Maharashtra has the highest COVID burden in the country, reporting more than 50,000 cases and 1,635 deaths.

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