Coronavirus-positive Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij was on Tuesday evening shifted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon, a family member said.  Vij, who is currently battling the Covid-19 infection, was on Tuesday admitted to Gurugram's Medanta Hospital in a critical condition, officials said.

As per source info, the minister is getting treatment under Dr. Sushila Kataria, senior director of the Internal Medicine Department at Medanta,  He is suffering from lung infection. However, there was no official response from the hospital.

Vij was admitted to Medanta in the evening from the Haryana government's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak where he was admitted on Saturday and had received convalescent plasma therapy. The institute had stated that Vij had moderate Covid-19 with bilateral viral pneumonia. The sources told that his family insisted to shift him to the private facility in Gurugram from PGIMS after they found his health condition not improving there.

The minister had, last month, received a jab of the two-dose trial of indigenous Covid-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin, developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, after he offered to be a volunteer in its Phase 3 trials.

Bharat Biotech, however, contended that clinical trials of the vaccine are based on a two-dose schedule, given 28 days apart. "The vaccine efficacy will be determined two weeks after the second dose," it had said. Covaxin has been designed to be protective two weeks after volunteers receive the second dose, their statement read. The Union Health Ministry had also stepped in to say that Covaxin is a two-dose vaccine and that Vij was given only the first dose a fortnight before he tested positive.

Nitish Cabinet approves free corona vaccine to all people of Bihar

Fake Covid 19 vaccines increase on dark web, Research

Corona vaccine will be applied first in Madhya Pradesh