Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar tests positive for COVID-19

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday said that she has tested positive for coronavirus.

Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday said that she has tested positive for coronavirus. Pednekar shared the information herself on the Twitter handle, where she stated that her rapid antigen test came positive, but she is "asymptomatic".

"As I don't have any symptoms I have home quarantined myself as per the doctors' advice," she said in a tweet. Maharashtra reported 23,816 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday taking the total count of COVID-19 cases in the state to 9,67,349.

While, India's COVID-19 case count has crossed the 43-lakh mark with a spike of 89,706 new cases. (ANI).