Farooq Abdullah, an octogenarian, had received his first shot of Covid-19 vaccine on March 2.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, who tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week, has been hospitalised, his son Omar Abdullah tweeted on Saturday. "Based on the advice of doctors to enable them to better monitor my father, he has been admitted to hospital in Srinagar. Our family remains grateful to everyone for their messages of support & their prayers," Omar Abdullah tweeted.
Farooq Abdullah, an octogenarian, had received his first shot of Covid-19 vaccine on March 2 and was symptomatic, his son had tweeted. Since then, he and his family members were in self-isolation. Farooq had undergone a kidney transplant in 2014 and is on immunosuppressants. He tested positive for coronavirus on March 30, around one month after getting the first dose of vaccine.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other leaders wished him a speedy recovery. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, both were released from house arrest last year following their detentions after the abrogation of Article 370, that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, in August 2019.
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