KOLKATA (Reuters) – Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who heads the nation’s cricket board, has been admitted to hospital in Kolkata after testing optimistic for COVID-19, his brother Snehasish advised Reuters on Tuesday.
“Sourav has acquired COVID however he’s feeling tremendous,” Snehasish stated by phone, including that the optimistic outcome got here on Monday evening.
One of India’s most profitable captains, the 49-year-old underwent an angioplasty at first of the yr after complaining of chest discomfort.
India reported over 6,000 new COVID-19 instances on Tuesday, with the variety of deaths rising by 293.
About 34.8 million individuals have contracted the novel coronavirus on this planet’s second-most populous nation with confirmed deaths of over 480,000.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
