Staffer infected, Panchkula Shiksha Sadan shut

Panchkula: A clerical staff member at Shiksha Sadan (Haryana) and a PCS officer were among four persons who tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the district tally to 133. The 26-year-old employee, who hails from Hisar, lives in a rented accommodation in Sector 19. The building of Shiksha Sadan in Sector 5 has been shut for 48 hours after the employee was found positive for Covid. It would be reopened after proper sanitisation, health officials said. A 26-year-old resident of Sector 7, a PCS officer in Mohali, also tested positive for the virus. His mother and wife would be tested for Covid on Friday. The sample of a 30-year-old man from Adarsh Colony in Kalka also came positive. The fourth case was of an elderly man from Sector 7, the father of a patient whose two brothers were found infected on Wednesday. TNS

Advertisement