Kolkata, Jan 4 : Cricket Association of Bengal President Avishek

Dalmiya was on Tuesday admitted to a private hospital after he tested

positive for COVID-19, CAB sources said.

Dalmiya was detected with a viral infection in an RTPCR test on Monday.

“This morning (Tuesday), he has been admitted to the Woodlands

Multispeciality Hosptial,” the sources said.

The doctors have advised him monoclonal antibody cocktail therapy.

Former Indian team cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla has also tested

positive for the virus and is now in home isolation.

Shukla, a former West Bengal minister of state for sports and now the

coach of the Bengal under-23 side tested positive on Monday

“I have mild symptoms, a mild fever,” he said.(UNI)