Sections of DoT headquarters closed after employee exposure to coronavirus patient

New Delhi: May 20 () The Department of Telecom has closed some sections in its headquarters, Sanchar Bhavan, after a staff’s family member tested positive for coronavirus infection. The department in a notice informed its staff that the employee lives in a joint family of 17 members and his brother was tested positive on May 19.

“The DoT has asked the employee not to come to the office and to be in quarantine with immediate effect,” an official source told .

The employee of the accounts department was working on the eighth floor of Sanchar Bhawan where more than 1,000 people work.