Ranchi, July 12 -- Three days after Chief Minister Hemant Soren self-quarantined himself following one of his Cabinet colleagues and a JMM legislator testing positive for Covid-19, the CM, his wife Kalpana Soren, Press Advisor Abhishek Prasad and his Senior Private Secretary Sunil Shrivastava tested negative for the deadly disease on Saturday.

A team of three doctors collected throat swab samples of the CM, his family member and 23 other people working at the Chief Minister's residence early on Saturday morning and some of the results were declared by evening. The results of many others were not released at the time of filing of the report.

"The report of CM and his wife has come out negative for Covid-19. Some of the samples are in the p...