Haryana health minister Anil Vij in stable condition; BJP leader undergoing treatment for COVID-19
FirstpostVij had tested positive for coronavirus on 5 December, weeks after getting a shot of the two-dose Covaxin trial Chandigarh: The condition of Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij, who is undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a Gurgaon hospital, is stable, according to an official statement Wednesday. “Haryana Home and Health Minister Anil Vij, who was admitted to Medanta-The Medicity on 15 December at 9 pm, and is undergoing treatment for COVID-19, is stable and he is maintaining vitals parameters on high flow nasal cannula on oxygen support,” the statement said. On Tuesday, Vij’s younger brother Rajinder Vij had told reporters outside PGIMS, “We are shifting him to Medanta because we are not seeing the kind of improvement which we were expecting.” He had said that the doctors at the Rohtak hospital “gave their best treatment” and “provided best facilities”, yet there had not been much improvement in the minister’s condition. The Union health ministry had also stepped in to say that Covaxin is a two-dose anti-coronavirus vaccine and that Vij was given only the first dose a fortnight before he tested positive.