Previous Uttarakhand CM and Congress pioneer Harish Rawat have been taken to AIIMS, Delhi from Dehradun by the express government's air rescue vehicle after he was determined to have COVID-19 on Wednesday. 

Alongside Rawat, four individuals from his family additionally tried positive for COVID-19 yesterday. He headed out to Delhi on the exhortation of specialists, said sources near Harish Rawat. 

"I got myself tried. My test report came positive and four individuals from my family have likewise tried positive. The individuals who have come into my contact till early afternoon today should generously get themselves tried as this alert is a need," he tweeted on Wednesday. 

On Thursday, India recorded 53,476 new COVID-19 cases; 26,490 recuperations, and 251 passings just now, according to information from Union Health Ministry.