Farooq Abdullah, Covid Positive, Moved To Hospital For Better Monitoring

National Conference chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, who had tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this week, has been admitted to a hospital.

“Based on the advice of doctors to enable them to better monitor my father, he has been admitted to hospital in Srinagar,” Farooq Abdullah’s son and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah tweeted on Saturday. “Our family remains grateful to everyone for their messages of support and their prayers.”

Omar Abdullah had tweeted about his father’s diagnosis on Tuesday, and said that he was showing some symptoms of the infection. Omar Abdullah added that he and his family members would isolate themselves. “I request anyone who has come in to contact with us over the last few days to take all the mandated precautions,” he had said.