October 2, 2020: Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki, who tested positive for Covid-19 on June 21, was discharged on Thursday after being in hospital for 101 days.

While addressing the media from the hospital in Ahmedabad Solanki said, “I used to believe that I had a very good immunity and nothing would happen to me. I would roam around and meet people without any hesitation. But suddenly I had fever, but developed no other Covid symptoms. Initially my blood test reports also didn’t reflect anything, but later doctors found out that the situation has reached an extreme stage”.

As per reports, after he tested positive on June 21, he was admitted to a private hospital in Vadodara. Later he was shifted to Care Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) Hospital in Ahmedabad on June 30. In the last 101 days, besides Covid-19, he also battled pneumonia, renal failure, coma, paralysis and sepsis.