NEW DELHI: A family member of a sanitation worker at Rashtrapati Bhavan has been tested positive for Covid 19.
“One case has been found there (in Rashtrapati Bhavan),” Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain told media persons on Tuesday.
The patient is the daughter-in-law of the sanitation worker who lives in the President’s Estate.
As news about the sanitation worker’s family member came out in public, President Ram Nath Kovind’s office issued a statement, clarifying that no employee of the President’s secretariat has tested positive for COVID-19 till date.
“The President’s secretariat along with the local administration is taking all the preventive measures required under the government guidelines,” Nimish Rustagi, deputy press secretary to the President, said.
The sanitation worker along with daughter-in-law and other family members is a resident of Pocket 1, Schedule ‘A’, area of the President’s Estate.
She is believed to have contracted the virus after she recently joined the last rites of her mother who died of Covid-19 infection with co-morbidity B L Kapoor Hospital in New Delhi on April 13.
The President’s office clarified that the deceased was not a resident of President’s Estate.
“After contact tracing of the deceased, it was found that a family member of an employee of the President’s secretariat had been in contact with the deceased” Rustagi said.
Following this, the sanitation worker along with his family members including his daughter-in-law were moved to a quarantine facility at Mandir Marg on April 16 as required under the guidelines.
Besides, a total of 115 houses in the Pocket 1, Schedule ‘A’ area, of the President’s Estate were identified for movement restriction.
“And the residents have been advised to remain indoors. The residents of these houses are being provided doorstep delivery of essential commodities,” the President’s office said.
