<p><strong>New Delhi: </strong>Former union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;</p> <p>Tharoor took to Twitter to inform that he has tested positive after waiting for a test appointment and the results and said he is hoping to deal with it in a &ldquo;positive&rdquo; frame of mind.</p> <p>&nbsp;&ldquo;After waiting two days for a test appointment and another day &amp; a half for the results, I finally have confirmation: I&rsquo;m #Covid positive. Hoping to deal with it in a &ldquo;positive&rdquo; frame of mind, with rest, steam &amp; plenty of fluids. My sister&amp; 85 year old mother are in the same boat,&rdquo; he tweeted.</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;READ: <a href="https://ift.tt/3sEpRPe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India&rsquo;s Cumulative Covid-19 Vaccination Coverage Exceeds 13 crore, Over 21 Lakh Active Cases</a></strong></p> <p>&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;After waiting two days for a test appointment and another day &amp;amp; a half for the results, I finally have confirmation: I&rsquo;m &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covid?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;#Covid&lt;/a&gt; positive. Hoping to deal with it in a &ldquo;positive&rdquo; frame of mind, with rest, steam &amp;amp; plenty of fluids. My sister&amp;amp; 85 year old mother are in the same boat.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1384874384247201794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;April 21, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong>This comes as the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry earlier in the day said 2,95,041 new Covid-19 cases were registered in the last 24 hours. There are 21,57,000 active cases in India currently i.e. twice the number of maximum active cases last year.</p> <p><strong>READ: <a href="https://ift.tt/3elJfM0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Covaxin Neutralises Corona Mutant: ICMR Study Shows Covid Vaccine Effective Against Multiple Variants</a></strong></p> <p>Ten states, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Rajasthan, report 76.32 percent of the new cases.</p>

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