By Alok Mohit
Patna, August 3: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has tested negative for Covid-19 and no longer needs to isolate after recovering from the infection, doctors said here on Wednesday.
Kumar had tested positive for COVID-19 on July 26 and had been under home isolation since then.
The Bihar chief minister, due to his illness, had on July 25 skipped the swearing-in ceremony of President Droupadi Murmu, giving rise to speculations in the political circles that the ties between Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) and its NDA ally, BJP, may have run into rough weather. He also could not meet Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda, who were in Patna last week to attend the two-day joint national executive meeting of party’s various cells.
This was the second time that Kumar had tested positive for COVID-19 in seven months. He had contracted the virus earlier in January this year.
