Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu recovered from coronavirus on Sunday. On testing negative on confirmatory tests, he was discharged from the state-run Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Bengaluru, he confirmed in a tweet."On being diagnosed with covid_19 I was admitted at the Bowring Government Hospital and it is due to the treatment provided at the hospital that I have been discharged today," he tweeted. Sriramulu had tested positive on August 9, a week after the infection was confirmed in Chief Minister Yediyurappa. However, his decision to get treated at a government hospital contrary to the CM and leader of opposition Siddaramaiah who got admitted to a private hospital was appreciated by many.
Earlier, while announcing that he had contracted the virus, the minister had urged all his staff and others who had come in contact with him, to take precautionary measures. Notably, Sriramulu follows both, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in recovering from the infection and being discharged from hospital in recent days. Karnataka on Saturday recorded 8,818 new cases of coronairus-its highest tally for a day-taking its overall COVID-19 numbers to 2,19,926. This includes 1,34,811 recovered cases, 81,276 active cases and 3,831 deaths.