Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar tests positive for COVID-19

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar

Mumbai: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday said that she has tested positive for coronavirus.

Pednekar shared the information herself on the Twitter handle, where she stated that her rapid antigen test came positive, but she is "asymptomatic".

मी कोविड अँटीजन चाचणी करून घेतली ती सकारात्मक आली कोणतंही लक्षणं नसल्याने डॉक्टरांच्या सल्ल्याने स्वतः घरी विलगीकरन होत आहे माझ्या संपर्कातील सर्व सहकाऱ्यांनी काळजी घ्यावी
माझ्या घरातील सदस्यांची कोविड चाचणी केली.
आपल्या शुभेच्छा व आशीर्वादाने लवकरच मुंबईकरांच्या सेवेत रुजू होईन pic.twitter.com/ayW43cXGrj

— Kishori Pednekar (@KishoriPednekar) September 10, 2020

"As I don't have any symptoms I have home quarantined myself as per the doctors' advice," she said in a tweet.

Maharashtra reported 23,816 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday taking the total count of COVID-19 cases in the state to 9,67,349.

While, India's COVID-19 case count has crossed the 43-lakh mark with a spike of 89,706 new cases. (ANI).