New Delhi: The daughter-in-law of a sanitation worker at the Rashtrapati Bhavan has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting authorities to put 125 families staying in the President’s Estate in home quarantine.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain today said a Covid-19 case has been reported from the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex in the Capital. Though he did not give any further details, an ANI news agency report claimed that about 125 families living in the premises have been asked to quarantine themselves as a precautionary measure.
Unidentified officials told PTI that the patient was a relative of a sanitation worker who stays in the premises, and has been admitted to a hospital. The workerās mother had died of Covid-19 infection a few days ago, officials said.
“The mother used to live outside the Presidentās Estate,” an official was quoted as saying. “After she was tested positive, all her relatives were quarantined and their test was done. The test report came negative.”