Jaipur Municipal Corporation office shut for 2 days after staff test positive

JAIPUR: The Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) headquarters will be closed for two days after a civil defence staff of the civic body tested positive on Friday. The office will be sanitized before being opened again.
Since the outbreak of coronavirus, the JMC officials have been coming to office every day without break, except this weekend, in which they have to work from home. This weekend, the entire JMC building at Lal Kothi will be sanitized before work is resumed.
JMC additional commissioner Arun Garg said that emergency work will continue from Civil Line zone till the headquarters is opened.“Our Lal Kothi office will be shut, including the control room. Till then, we have shifted our files, computers to the civil line zones,” said Garg.
The infected person was part of civil defence team who was involved in sanitization work in the city. It is expected that he got infected while working on the field. On May 4, he complained of fever and weakness. The JMC officials tested him and sent him on leave. On Friday, when reports came, he was found positive. Two people who came in contact with him were also sent for home isolation.
However, the delay of four days in test result has raised scare among the officials. The person might have infected his family members too.
The JMC has started testing its staff since last week, but it is expecting to get the result soon to avoid further spread.