Covid-19: UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh tests negative after attending party with Kanika Kapoor

Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh, who had attended a party with Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor days before she tested positive for the novel coronavirus, on Saturday tested negative for Covid-19*, the King George Medical University here said.

The 66-year-old minister had gone into self-isolation after the test in Lucknow on Friday soon after Kapoor announced that she had tested positive for coronavirus.

"Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh has tested negative for Covid-19," KGMU spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singh said.