Hyderabad: Employee at GHMC head office tests positive for coronavirus

An employee working in a section in the fourth floor of the head office of GHMC. This created panic among the staff in the fourth floor who have been sent to their houses.

According to the authorities, the employee was suffering from fever and went to the hospital. His samples were taken and later tested positive for coronavirus. It is learned that the patient's wife is a nurse and is working at government hospital. The officials took up sanitisation of the fourth floor.

Meanwhile, the GHMC and healthcare workers are tracing for the primary contacts of the employees. The officials are yet to fine out he was infected with coronavirus and are learning about the places the employee has travelled.

About 1500 employees work in the GHMC head office. No thermal screening is being conducted for the visitors and employees at the GHMC office nor the guards at head office wear PPE kits.

Earlier in the day, a father and son, working in the finance department of the secretariat building BRKR bhavan have been infected with the deadly coronavirus. Following this, the entire staff working in the finance department were asked to leave office and provided work from home for a week.