Himachal CM in self-quarantine after deputy secretary in his office tests positive for Covid-19

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur quarantined himself after a deputy secretary of his office tested positive for Covid-19 infection.


A BJP leader from Mandi district, who had recently visited the chief minister’s office and residence was also tested positive for the infection.

Samples of chief minister and his family members have been tested negative.

Additional chief secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said that a person had visited Shimla from Mandi on July 21. He was later tested as coronavirus positive. He said that it has been found that the person had come in contact of some persons in the state secretariat. The contact tracing of primary contacts of the corona positive patient was done on Wednesday and samples of the primary contacts were collected, he added.

He said that three persons including a senior officer of the State Secretariat had been found positive and primary contacts of these corona positive persons have been asked to go into home quarantine. “They would be re-tested and after 5-6 days of quarantine on being reported negative they would be allowed to join their duties,” he said, adding that officials of Chief Minister’s office and official residence of chief minister have been asked to self quarantine themselves. He said that samples of chief minister and his family have been tested negative.

Meanwhile, the state reported 61 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday while 28 positive patients have recovered.

Total number of positive cases in the state has now increased to 1,725 of which 593 cases are active while 1,105 patients have recovered. A total of 1,21,688 people have been tested for Covid-19 of which 1,19,350 have been tested negative while results of 613 samples were awaited.



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