<span style="color: #222222;">Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gyan Chand Gupta has been tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Haryana Health Department, he has been quarantined in his official residence at Chandigarh.  AIR correspondent reports that yesterday his Political Secretary and a close relative was found positive along with six employees of Vidhan Sabha. Notably, the three-day Monsoon Session of Haryana Assembly has been called on 26th of August.<br />''<br />''Yesterday, 1,096 persons tested positive for COVID-19, 809  patients were discharged after recovery and six patients lost their lives in the state.<br />''<br />''The number of positive cases found so far in the state has risen to 54,306, out of which 44,822 patients have cured. The good thing is the recovery rate in the state has also risen to 82.47 per cent.</span><br />