The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly has finally been discharged from the Woodlands hospital in Kolkata on Friday as he eventually tested negative for the Omicron variant of Covid. The doctors said that Ganguly was doing fine and would stay in home isolation after being discharged from the Woodland Hospital on Friday.

The 49-year-old BCCI president was suffering from mild symptoms and he was kept under close watch at the hospital. Ganguly received “Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail” therapy on Monday night itself and is currently “hemodynamically stable”, the hospital confirmed.

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This was the third time that Sourav Ganguly has been hospitalized this year after January when he was admitted a couple of times after complaining of chest discomfort. Ganguly had actually suffered a heart attack while exercising at his Kolkata home and underwent a right coronary angioplasty.

Almost two decades later, Ganguly had similar chest pain, leading to the second round of angioplasty on January 28. During the process, two stents were placed in two arteries. Ganguly resumed work in March and also got himself fully vaccinated against Covid-19. His brother Snehasish Ganguly had also tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this year.

BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly was admitted to the Woodlands Hospital in Kolkata on Monday night when his RT-PCR test returned positive. The former Indian captain has already taken both doses of the vaccine and, but he was admitted to the hospital twice earlier this year and underwent emergency angioplasty after facing some cardiac issues.

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Currently, in India, more than 7,000 new COVID-19 cases emerged on Wednesday, with the number of deaths rising by 302. About 34.8 million people have contracted the novel coronavirus in the world’s second-most populous nation with confirmed deaths of over 480,000.