Metro office sealed after Telengana CM staff tests positive

Naveen S Garewal

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, June 7

The Hyderabad Metro Rail Bhavan in the city’s Rasoolpura area was sealed for sanitisation after a staffer working in the Chief Minister’s office (CMO) tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.

The staffer had visited the Metro’s headquarters for official work.

The officials said the developments were unlikely to have any direct impact on the functioning of Chief Minister K Chandershekhar Rao as he mostly operated out of his camp office-cum-residence, Pragathi Bhavan, in Begumpet.

The person, who tested positive, reportedly worked as personal secretary to a senior bureaucrat in the CMO. Staff members had been asked to remain under home-quarantine and work from home, sources added.

Samples of those who came in direct contact with the staff member have also been collected, for which the results are awaited.

At the same time, the journalistic fraternity in the state suffered a setback when a young journalist, Manoj, who worked for a local Telugu TV channel, succumbed to COVID-19 on Sunday.

He was admitted to a hospital on June 4 after he tested positive.

Sources said the Telangana-cum-Andhra Bhawans in New Delhi were also sealed after an IAS officer posted there tested positive.