THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Industries and Sports Minister E P Jayarajan has tested positive for COVID-19. He was confirmed of the virus when he was in home quarantine. His wife has also contracted the disease. He is the second minister testing positive after Minister Thomas Isaac.

The two had attended the last CPM state secretariat together. Isaac tested positive of the virus after that.

Jayarajan went into quarantine soon after that. He was asymptomatic. Jayarajan has been shifted to Pariyaram Govt Medical College.

The chief minister tested negative yesterday.