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Former J&K CM Omar Abdullah Tests Positive For Coronavirus 2 Days After Taking First Jab

"For a year I did my best to dodge this damn virus but it's finally caught up with me. I tested positive for Covid-19 this afternoon," Omar tweeted.

Srinagar: Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah  tested positive for Coronavirus on Friday. Informing about the same, he took to micro-blogging site Twitter and said he is asymptomatic and self-isolating.

"For a year I did my best to dodge this damn virus but it's finally caught up with me. I tested positive for Covid-19 this afternoon," Omar tweeted.

"I'm completely asymptotic. Based on medical advice I'm self-isolating at home and monitoring my parameters like oxygen saturation levels etc," he wrote in another tweet. 

Omar, son of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, turned positive two days after taking first jab of Covid-19 vaccine. 

Omar's father Farooq Abdullah had also tested positive for Covid-19 days after he had taken a Covid jab at SKIMS in Srinagar.

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