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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla tests Covid positive, admitted to AIIMS

March 21, 2021 15:07 IST

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla was admitted to the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences COVID Centre in New Delhi for observation on March 20 after testing positive for coronavirus, and he is presently stable, the hospital said on Sunday.

 

IMAGE: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Photograph: ANI Photo

'He is stable and all his parameters are normal,' the AIIMS said in a statement.

According to the hospital, Birla, 58, tested positive for the coronavirus infection on March 19.

He was admitted to the AIIMS COVID Centre for observation the next day.

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