After IAS Officer Tests Positive, Top Officials Self-Quarantine In J&K

JAMMU, May 31 (HS)A senior IAS officer has tested positive for novel Coronavirus last night in Jammu and Kashmir, and as a result, many senior officials are self-quarantining.

Official sources said that the IAS officer’s test came positive late last night, only a few hours after he participated in a high-level meeting attended among others by a Financial Commissioner, a Principal Secretary, a senior officer in the Disaster Management Authority and officials in the Health and Medical Education Department.

 Besides them, the meeting was attended by Principal GMC, Managing Director of an organization, a Director, a Microbiologist, an Epidemiologist besides others.

The swap sample of the Commissioner Secretary rank officer was taken at the airport and the reports came only after the meeting was over, they said.  In fact, sources said, most of the officers who participated in the meeting had reached home.

Meanwhile, sources said that besides the officer’s, test reports of four other persons, taken on the same date at the airport, have come positive for the virus, taking the number of covid-19 patients in J&K to 2356 for now. “The number is bound to increase as many samples have already tested positive in the last 12 hours and many reports are under process at several laboratories,” the sources added.