Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Sunday tested positive for coronavirus.
A spokesman of the Health Department in Puducherry told PTI that Rangasamy underwent an examination at the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College Hospital on Sunday and tested positive for the virus.
The spokesman said that Rangasamy was stable and had preferred to get treatment at a private hospital in Chennai.
He left for Chennai in the evening.
Rangasamy assumed office as the Chief Minister on Friday.
Work on National Digital Health Mission in progress
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Central project to set up an integrated database of health providers and users
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Model health ecosystem: Health Director S. Mohan Kumar, left, and J. Ramesh, nodal officer, addressing the media on Monday.
| Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar
Central project to set up an integrated database of health providers and users
Work on key components of the National Digital Health Mission, a Central project to set up an integrated database of health providers and users, is under way in the Union Territory.
S. Mohan Kumar, Director of Health, and J. Ramesh, nodal officer for the project, told a press conference that the Health Department in Puducherry has completed enrolment of doctors in the government sector and was now in the process of collating data in the private sector for the DigiDoctor component of the NDHM.