Coronavirus reaches Rashtrapati Bhavan complex as India Covid-19 cases cross 20,000

Team Suno Neta Tuesday 21st of April 2020 11:41 PM

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Workers sanitizing the road leading to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

New Delhi: The Rashtrapati Bhavan, on Tuesday, said 115 staff houses in the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex have been quarantined after a relative of one of the employees working there tested positive for the new coronavirus, Covid-19. However, it said no employee of the president’s secretariat has tested positive for the virus.

In a statement, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said a Covid-19-positive patient from central Delhi, who didn’t belong to either the president’s estate or the president’s secretariat, died on April 13 at the BL Kapoor Hospital. When it was later found that a family member of an employee staying in the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex had been in contact with the patient, all the family members of the employee, numbering seven, were moved a quarantine facility in central Delhi. Out of the seven, one tested positive for Covid-19.

Meanwhile, the coronavirus cases in the country crossed 20,000 and the death toll crossed 640, on Tuesday.

So far, the coronavirus pandemic has infected over 250,000 people causing over 170,000 deaths across the world. The US still leads other nations in both the number of Covid-19 infections and deaths caused by it. However, Italy and Spain – the two countries most affected by the pandemic in Europe – seem to have put breaks on the number of new cases and deaths.

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