<p id="content">Vice President M. Venkiah Naidu, who had presided over proceedings of the Rajya Sabha in the recently-concluded Monsoon Session, has tested positive for coronavirus.</p>
The Vice President's Secretariat, in a tweet, said that the Vice President, who underwent a routine Covid-19 test on yesterday tested positive.
"..He is however, asymptomatic and in good health. He has been advised home quarantine. His wife Smt. Usha Naidu has been tested negative and is in self-isolation," it said.
Naidu has become the highest constitutional authority to test positive for Covid-19.
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