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United Nations, Dec 23 (PTI) President of the United Nations General Assembly Abdulla Shahid on Thursday said that he has tested positive for the COVID-19 and is isolating at home with mild symptoms.<\/p>\n
The 59-year-old Maldivian Minister of Foreign Affairs is fully vaccinated along with a booster jab.<\/p>\n
I have tested positive for COVID19 today. I am isolating at home with mild symptoms. I was privileged to have been fully vaccinated including a booster. My prayers are with the millions suffering from Covid and the billions without access to vaccine! I Stand for #VaccineEquity, Shahid, the President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n
In June, he was overwhelmingly elected as the President of the United Nations General Assembly, garnering 143 votes out of the 191 ballots cast.<\/p>\n
He presided over the 76th session of the UNGA in September.<\/p>\n
After his election, Shahid had said that his immediate priority will be recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and working to ensure vaccine equity to restore hope from a year characterised by disease, despair and devastation.<\/p>\n
Shahid had succeeded Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir who was UNGA President for the 75th session that came amid the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The President of the General Assembly is elected every year by a secret ballot and requires a simple majority vote of the General Assembly.<\/p>\n
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