Former PM Manmohan Singh tests positive for coronavirus despite taking COVID-19 vaccines

NEW DELHI: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was today admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi after testing positive for coronavirus.

Condition of the 89-year-old two times prime minister is however stated to be stable.

The veteran congress leader had reportedly received both the doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

The former premier on Sunday wrote a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi suggesting several ways to fight Covid-19 pandemic in the country, which is currently in its second wave.

In the letter, Singh highlighted a pertinent point of vaccination drive, suggesting an expansion of COVID vaccination programme.

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India reported 2,73,810 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours. The highest one-day surge so far took India's Covid caseload past the 1.5 crore mark. 1,619 people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours.