Four more cases at secretariat, tally 97

Four more cases at secretariat, tally 97

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bhopal:  09.12.2020

The number of corona positive cases in the secretariat rose to 97 on Tuesday. Employees of 30 departments in the secretariat have contracted the infection so far. Senior bureaucrats are also among the 97 who have tested positive so far.

The latest cases pertain to two home department employees and two people of other departments, including a woman employee. Before this week, a woman employee of the panchayat department and an employee attached to the energy department were found corona positive.

At least 22 employees in the secretariat have been found corona positive in November. The month-wise trend of employees being detected positive in the secretariat shows that the rate of employees getting corona positive had slightly gone down in October, but shot up again in November.

July and November witnessed the highest corona positive cases in the secretariat with 22 cases in the months.

September witnessed the second highest number of corona positives with 20 people testing positive. The first corona positive case was reported in May in the secretariat. Only one positive case was found in May. In June, the number of corona positive cases rose to 8 while it shot to 22 in July. Eight employees were found corona positive in August and 20 in September. Over 12 employees tested positive in October and 22 in November. Three employees have been found corona positive this month.

Almost all the big departments have witnessed corona positive cases. Departments in which corona positives have been found in all three Vallabh Bhavan buildings are the commercial taxes department, urban administration department, energy department, CM secretariat, health department, finance department, law department, medical education and home department.

Of the total found corona positives in three buildings of Vallabh Bhavan, two employees have lost lives due to corona so far. Sudhir Nayak, president of the Mantralayin Karmachari Sangh said, earlier the corona test of all employees who came in contact with a corona positive employee was conducted, but now, employees are told that test would be conducted only if they get corona symptoms.

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