115 President's Estate Families Isolated As Worker's Relative Tests COVID-19 +ve

Residents of 115 houses in the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex have been quarantined after the relative of an employee there tested positive for coronavirus, sources said. No employee of President's Secretariat has tested positive for COVID-19, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said.

A COVID-19 positive patient from central Delhi, who was neither an employee of the President's secretariat nor a resident of the President's Estate, died on April 13 with co-morbidities at the BL Kapoor Hospital, the statement said.

When it was later found that a family member of an employee staying in the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex had been in contact with the patient, all the seven family members were moved a quarantine facility in central Delhi. One of the family members of the employee subsequently tested positive while the rest tested negative.

The residents of the 115 houses in the President's Estate are being provided doorstep delivery of essential commodities, Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

Coronavirus cases in India crossed the 18,000 mark this morning with 18,601 cases, including 590 deaths. The country recorded the biggest jump in the number of deaths in a day with 47 patients dying in the last 24 hours.

With over 2,000 cases, Delhi has the second-highest numbers in the country after Maharashtra.

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