Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has tested positive for COVID-19. Taking to the micro-blogging site, the Vice President's secretariat said that VP Naidu underwent a routine COVID-19 test on Tuesday morning and has tested positive for the deadly virus.

The Vice President of India who underwent a routine COVID-19 test today morning has been tested positive. He is however, asymptomatic and in good health. He has been advised home quarantine. His wife Smt. Usha Naidu has been tested negative and is in self-isolation.

— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) September 29, 2020

Sharing the news from his official Twitter handle, Naidu's secretariat said that he is asymptomatic and in good health. "He has been advised home quarantine (sic)," the Vice President Secretariat tweeted. The tweet also said that Vice President Naidu's wife Usha Naidu has been tested negative and is in self-isolation.