Actor Sumalatha Ambareesh tests COVID-19 positive

Actor-turned-politician Sumalatha Ambareesh tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

Sumalatha said she developed headache and throat pain on Saturday. Since she visited coronavirus hotspots as part of her work, she underwent a test. “Today, I got the result. And it is positive,” she wrote on her Facebook page.

“Following the advice of doctors, I have been placed under home quarantine,” she added. Sumalatha also noted that she has already given details of people that she met recently to the government officials for contact tracing purposes. However, she requested people to voluntarily report to officials, if they had come in contact with her in the recent past.