The office of the Uttar Pradesh Estate Department here was sanitised over suspicion of a section officer being infected with coronavirus, a senior officer said on Friday.
Additional Chief Secretary, Secretariat Administration Department, Mahesh Kumar Gupta told PTI that the section officer was suspected to be positive for coronavirus.
His sample was sent for testing through the district magistrate.
The report came negative but as a precautionary measure, the office was sanitised, Gupta said.
"The section in which the officer was posted has also been closed and all the employees of that section have been asked to follow social distancing norms," he added.
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