HomeNews Reports13 staffers at Delhi Lieutenant Governor secretariat test positive for Coronavirus, contacts being traced

13 staffers at Delhi Lieutenant Governor secretariat test positive for Coronavirus, contacts being traced

An official told IANS that total 13 people in LG's office have tested positive for the infection

Thirteen staffers working at the secretariat of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal have been tested positive of Wuhan coronavirus.

An official told IANS, ‘Total 13 people have tested positive for the infection. We are tracing the close contacts. The remaining staff members are being scanned for the symptoms. The office is being sanitised as per the government”s guidelines.”

Earlier, four staffers at Raj Niwas were tested positive on May 29. Several coronavirus cases have also been reported from the office of Health minister Satyendra Jain in Delhi Secretariat and the office of District Magistrates as well.

On May 29, two floors of Parliament Annexe building was sealed when a Director level officer attended work on May 28 and was later tested positive of coronavirus along with his family.

Prior to this, a housekeeping staff of parliament who works in the lower house was tested positive with coronavirus. The staffer was posted at the Lok Sabha secretariat at 36 GRG road.

Also, The daughter-in-law of a sanitation worker who works in Rashtrapati Bhawan was found coronavirus positive. Given that effect, 125 families associated with Rashtrapati Bhavan were sent to strict self-isolation.

The Building of Aviation Ministry was also sealed after a staffer of the ministry was tested positive for coronavirus.

Join OpIndia's official WhatsApp channel

  Support Us  

For likes of 'The Wire' who consider 'nationalism' a bad word, there is never paucity of funds. They have a well-oiled international ecosystem that keeps their business running. We need your support to fight them. Please contribute whatever you can afford

OpIndia Staff
OpIndia Staffhttps://www.opindia.com
Staff reporter at OpIndia

Related Articles

Trending now

‘BJP swallows its allies’: Old accusation is back after Annamalai’s departure, but It’s the allies who backstabbed BJP first

Despite Annamalai leaving the party, it does not prove that BJP abandons its leaders or allies. History shows BJP’s coalition politics has been the strategy of taking allies along.

As Congress and AAP fight to take credit for developing the ‘education sector’ of Punjab, read how Arvind Kejriwal was accused of passing Sheila...

While AAP has claimed credit for Punjab’s rise in the education sector, the timeline suggests the state’s improvement may have begun before the party came to power in 2022. The AAP government was sworn in in March 2022. But some key surveys or studies have cited the data prior to 2022. It raises the question: Does the AAP government deserve the actual credit, or are they riding on someone else's work? 
- Advertisement -