Kurnool: Six relatives of Kurnool MP Dr S Sanjeev Kumar, including his 83-year-old father, tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
Of the six, Kumar’s father has been taken to Hyderabad and has been put on ventilator as his health deteriorated.
While claiming that his relatives had strictly followed social distancing, he added that the spread of the infection has entered stage three (community transmission).
“We are six siblings, and my brothers and their wives are doctors. Both my brothers run private clinics, but they have been shut for one-and-a-half months,” he told TNIE and added that one of his brothers had visited a private clinic-Mycure where he is a consultant.
The MP himself got tested for Covid-19 two weeks ago and the result returned negative.
Kurnool MLA Hafeez Khan too tested negative for coronavirus.
Sanjeev Kumar urged people to practise social distancing and adhere to the lockdown guidelines strictly as it is for their own good.
