V.K. Sasikala tests COVID-19 positive

Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's key aide V.K. Sasikala, who is on the verge of finishing her jail term for corruption, has tested Covid positive on Thursday night.

The Victoria Hospital's second bulletin said that the second RT-PCR test carried out on Thursday confirmed that she is Covid positive.

According to the first bulletin that was released in the evening, she had developed a "severe chest infection and very high sugar levels".

The imprisoned Tamil Nadu leader was referred from Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital with a diagnosis of type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, urinary tract infection (UTI) and suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).

The Victoria Hospital said in its bulletin that she had been treated with antibiotics, insulin, heparin and other supportive measures and was admitted.

"She is maintaining oxygen saturation on 10 litres of oxygen through a Non-rebreather mask (NRBM)," the hospital had said.

Sasikala, lodged at the Parappana Agrahara Prison, was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February 2017 in a disproportionate assets case.

Sasikala was admitted to the hospital y'day with CT severity score of 16/25 & her throat swab for COVID turned to be positive, with diagnosis of COVID severe pneumonia with Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Hypothyroidism. She's being treated with COVID protocol: Victoria Hospital pic.twitter.com/wOyvpoZLtI

— ANI (@ANI) January 22, 2021