State Minister who consumed alleged Covid syrup tests positive

State Minister who consumed alleged Covid syrup tests positive

State Minister Piyal Nishantha has tested positive for Covid-19.

According to health authorities, the Minister tested positive after being subjected to a Rapid Antigen Test.

10 staff members of the Minister have also been ordered to self -quarantine.

State Minister Piyal Nishantha is the 4th MP among the 224 MPs of the current Parliament to test positive for COVID-19.

Ministers Vasudeva Nanayakkara and Dayasiri Jayasekara, and MP Rauff Hakeem tested positive for Covid last week.

State Minister Nishantha is reported to have attended the recent inauguration of a tyre manufacturing plant in Horana, which was attended by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

He had also attended a meeting with Government MPs in Kegalle two days ago.
The MP is among Government MPs who consumed the Ayurvedic Covid syrup produced by Ayurveda Medical practitioner Dhammika Bandara from Kegalle, in Parliament. (NewsWire)