Former Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya tests Covid positive

KOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has tested

positive

for Covid-19 and

doctors

have advised him to be in home isolation, health department sources confirmed. The

wife

of 77-year-old Bhattacharya, Mira Bhattacharya, also tested positive for the infection, following which she was admitted to a city hospital late Tuesday evening, they said.


"Swab samples of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, his wife and their attendant were collected this morning and they tested positive for the disease," a source said on Tuesday.

A medical board has been formed for Mrs

Bhattacharya

at the hospital, he added.

"Doctors are seeing the former chief minister at home and they are constantly keeping a tab on his health condition," the source said.