Dehradun, December 12:┬аUttarakhand Minister Rekha Arya tested positive for coronavirus on Friday. Arya, the┬аMinister for Women's Welfare & Child Development in the hill state, announced the news on Twitter. In her tweet, the 42-year old minister said that she is┬аasymptomatic and has isolated herself. In her tweet, she urged all the people who came in contact with her, to get themselves tested for the infection.

Arya┬аinformed that she has┬аisolated myself under the supervision of doctors and urged people not to hesitate to get themselves tested.┬аOn December 8,┬а Director General of Health in Uttarakhand, Dr. Amita Upreti had tested positive for COVID-19.┬аIn┬аNovember, Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya had tested positive for COVID-19.

Here's the tweet by┬аRekha Arya:

Amid the rising COVID-19 cases in the state,┬аUttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had instructed officials to ensure that COVID-19 test results are available within 24 hours in urban areas and 48 hours in hilly areas. In Uttarakhand, the┬аCOVID-19 tally rose to 81,211 on Friday with 725 more people testing positive for the virus. Moreover, with nine┬аnew fatalities, the death toll in the hill state surged to 1,341.

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