new delhi health ministry joint secretary lav agarwal who was governments spokesperson on covid19 for a long time tested positive with the infection on fridayin a tweet on friday evening agarwal said he had initiated home isolation as per guidelines and contact tracing would be done by the health teamdear all just to inform that i have tested positive for covid19 and initiating home isolation as per guidelines requesting all my friends colleagues for selfmonitoring contact tracing will be done by health team hoping to see everyone soon agarwal said in his tweet sources said many officials who had come in contact with agarwal in last few days were under observationagarwal has also been part of central teams visiting and inspecting various states and containment zones to review implementation of strategy on the ground he is the latest in a long line of high ranking officials who have contracted the disease