Bollywood actor Ranvir Shorey tests positive for COVID-19
Mumbai, Feb 17: Actor Ranvir Shorey on Wednesday said he has tested positive for coronavirus and is currently under quarantine.
The 48-year-old actor took to Twitter to inform fans and followers about the diagnosis.
"I have tested positive for #COVID19. Symptoms are mild. Am quarantining," Shorey wrote.
The actor had a packed 2020, featuring in films like "Angrezi Medium", "Lootcase", "Kadakh", and series such as "PariWar" and "High".
Shorey currently stars in the second season of the Eros Now comedy drama "Metro Park", which started streaming in January.
On Tuesday, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar warned that the Maharashtra government could think of imposing a "second lockdown" in light of the rise in COVID-19 cases in the city.
The tally of COVID-19 cases in the city increased to 3,15,030 with 461 new cases on Tuesday and the death toll rose to 11,423 with three new fatalities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.
I have tested positive for #COVID19. Symptoms are mild. Am quarantining.
— Ranvir Shorey (@RanvirShorey) February 17, 2021
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
