Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and Pipili MLA Pradeep Maharathy tested positive for COVID-19 Monday.
He informed this on his Facebook page.
In his post, he urged those who had come in contact with him in the last few days to get themselves tested if required.
Earlier, Dhenkanal MLA Sudhir Samal, School & Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash and his wife had tested positive for the pandemic disease. State BJP president Samir Mohanty had also tested positive for the virus infection.
These are the BJD MLAs and leaders who have tested positive for COVID-19: Pipili MLA Pradeep Maharathy, Dhenkanal MLA Sudhir Samal, Baliguda MLA Chakramani Kanhar, Kendrapara MLA Sashi Bhusan Behera, Patnagarh MLA Saroj Meher, Nabarangpur MLA Sadasiva Pradhani, Laxmipur MLA Prabhu Jani, Anandapur MLA Bhagirathi Sethy, Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Basudevpur MLA Bishnubrata Routray, Bhubaneswar North MLA Susant Rout, Bhubaneswar Central MLA Ananta Narayan Jena, Berhampur MLA Bikram Panda, Chandbali MLA Byomakesh Ray, former Badamba MLA Debi Prasad Mishra, Pottangi MLA Pritam Padhi, Bhadrak MLA Sanjib Mallick, Bari MLA Sunanda Das, Polasara MLA Srikant Sahu, Remuna MLA Sudhanshu Shekhar Parida, Jagatsinghpur MLA Prasanta Muduli and Selapur MLA Prasant Behera.
They apart, seven ministers Samir Ranjan Dash, Ranendra Pratap Swain, Tukuni Sahu, Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Susanta Singh, Arun Kumar Sahu and Padmini Dian and two MPs Ramesh Majhi (Nabarangpur) and Manjulata Mandal (Bhadrak) have also tested positive.
PNN