KATHMANDU: CPN-UML Deputy General Secretary Pradip Gyawali has contracted coronavirus.

He informed in this regard via Twitter Tuesday. He added he caught COVID-19 with mild symptoms.

“I urge those who came in contact with me recently to take precaution and undergo COVID-19 test,” Gyawali wrote on Twitter.

With this, contact tracing of many UML leaders has begun as Gyawali had attended party’s Central Committee meet on Saturday and Sunday in Bhaktapur, where most of central leaders, including UML Chair KP Oli, was present.