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DMK MLA J Anbazhagan who tested Covid positive dies

| @indiablooms | Jun 10, 2020, at 12:33 pm

Chennai/IBNS: DMK MLA J Anbazhagan, who had contracted the pandemic Novel Coronavirus, died on his birthday on Wednesday.

He would have turned 62 on Wednesday.

Anbazhagan, who was admitted to a hospital with "severe acute respiratory distress" on Jun 2, had tested Covid-19 at that time.

A day later, he was put on ventilator support.

Congress MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram tweeted, "DMK MLA #JAnbazhagan is no more. He succumbs to #COVID19. He is the first legislator to die in India of the infection. It was his 62nd birthday today. Om Shanti."

DMK chief MK Stalin too mourned the demise of the Tamil politician.

Image Credit: DMK Twitter

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