NEW DELHI, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who was suffering from COVID-19 and Dengue over the past two weeks, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday after recovery, a senior government official said.
The doctors advised him to take rest for a week.
Sisodia had tested COVID-19 positive on Sept. 14, and later diagnosed to be suffering from Dengue too. He was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a private hospital in Delhi on Sept. 25.
He was administered convalescent plasma therapy after which there was an improvement in his health condition, said the official.
Sisodia is the second minister in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's government to have tested positive for COVID-19.
In June Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain was hospitalised after he tested positive for COVID-19. He was discharged from the hospital on June 26 after being treated for 12 days.
The pandemic had hit hard India's political class, as a large number of federal ministers, states' chief ministers, lawmakers and other politicians have tested positive in past couple of months.
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee died on Aug. 31 at the age of 84 after testing COVID-19 positive.
Home Minister (Internal Security) Amit Shah, considered No. 2 in federal cabinet after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also tested COVID-19 positive after which he was hospitalised.
Last week, the country's junior railways minister Suresh Angadi had died of the pandemic. He belonged to the main ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and hailed from the southern state of Karnataka.
Vasantha Kumar, a popular lawmaker belonging to the main opposition Indian National Congress (INC), died in Chennai, the capital city of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
During the past couple of months chief ministers of several states, including Manoharlal Khattar (Haryana), Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh), B.S. Yediyurappa (Karnataka) and Pramod Sawant (Goa), have tested positive for COVID-19. Enditem
