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Parliament Monsoon Session: The Lok Sabha members were tested at the Parliament House on September 13 and 14, sources said.

Seventeen members of the Lok Sabha and eight from the Rajya Sabha have tested positive for coronavirus in the mandatory tests carried out before the monsoon session of parliament started this morning, sources said. Among the infected Lok Sabha MPs, the BJP has a maximum number — 12. The YSR Congress has two MPs, the Shiv Sena, DMK and RLP one each.

Sources said out and out, 56 individuals tried positive during the RT-PCR Tests led in the parliament building complex by September 12. The figure incorporates authorities, media people, and MPs of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

One of the contaminated MPs, Meenakshi Lekhi tweeted: “After the standard Parliament test for COVID and genome test it’s affirmed that I have tried positive for the infection. I am at present healthy and spirits. I demand every individual who has been as of late in contact with me to get tried. Together We will battle and annihilation Corona.”

The BJP’s Sukanta Majumdar was the first to tweet his positive status yesterday. “Mentioning every one of the individuals who have come in close contact with me over the most recent couple of days to screen their wellbeing and get tried in the event of any indications,” his tweet read.

Around 200 of the 785 MPs are over the age of 65 years and are among the populace powerless against COVID.

Prior, in any event, seven Union clergymen and around 25 MPs and MLAs had gotten the sickness. Among them was Union home clergyman Amit Shah, who went through an intensive clinical registration before the parliament meeting began.

An MP and a few MLAs have passed on from the profoundly irresistible sickness.

The parliament meeting is being held in the midst of enormous wellbeing estimates that incorporate amazing seating of the MPs in offices of the two Houses to keep up physical removing. A portable application has been acquainted with register their participation and seats in the house have been isolated with poly-carbon sheets.

In front of the meeting, all individuals were mentioned to get themselves tried for COVID-19.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla disclosed to NDTV that an enormous number of MPs went to the principal day’s meeting. “It shows how solid the underlying foundations of majority rules system are. The happening to MPs even in remarkable conditions is a major thing,” included the Speaker, who had sent uncommon Coronavirus units to all MPs.

The units, given by set up by guard research association DRDO, expendable covers, N-95 veils, sanitizers, face shields, gloves, homegrown sterilization wipes and tea sacks to improve resistance. Each unit likewise contains a COVID wellbeing manual for the MPs.