Chandigarh Finance Secretary tests positive

Chandigarh, August 23

UT Finance Secretary Ajoy Kumar Sinha has tested positive for coronavirus. A senior official said they would decide the next course of action on Monday. “We cannot keep the whole administration shut following this case. However, we will identify his close contacts and quarantine them,” said a senior officer.

Sinha is asymptomatic and has quarantined himself. He was coming to the office till Friday. Sources said he met a senior IAS officer of Punjab on Wednesday. After the latter tested positive, Sinha also got himself tested and was found positive. Other senior UT officials will also undergo tests now.

Earlier, MC Joint Commissioner Sorabh Arora and three councillors had tested positive. Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore was earlier tested and was found negative for Covid-19. His Principal Secretary JM Balamurugan and four others were found positive. — TNS