India / Delhi Deputy CM Sisodia, hospitalised with COVID-19 & dengue, shifted out of ICU

Zoom News : Sep 27, 2020, 10:40 AM
New Delhi: The condition of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is suffering from Covid-19 and dengue, has further improved, an official said on Saturday. The official also said that Manish Sisodia has been shifted from the ICU to a normal ward on Saturday.

The 48-year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader was administered convalescent plasma therapy on Friday after which there was an improvement in his health condition, officials had said.

Sisodia, who is also Delhi’s education and finance minister, had tested positive for the coronavirus disease on September 14 and then for dengue on Thursday. His blood platelet count and oxygen level fell on Thursday and was moved to Max Hospital from government-run LNJP Hospital.

Manish Sisodia had tested positive for Covid-19 on September 14 and was under home isolation. On Wednesday, he was admitted to the LNJP Hospital for treatment.

He tested positive for dengue a day later and was admitted to the ICU of the private facility in south Delhi.

"He was administered plasma therapy and his condition is now better," an official from the Deputy Chief Minister's Office had said on Friday.

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