Delhi wants medics in non-Covid hospitals to explain their infection

Delhi government has said that medical directors are "indiscriminately sending such health staff for quarantine to hotels and their homes for a period of 14 days.

The Delhi government has issued a circular that would require all doctors, nurses and paramedics in non-Covid hospitals, who have caught the Covid infection or become a close contact of an infected person, to provide a written explanation of how they landed in such a situation.
 

A letter sent out by Padmini Singla, health and family welfare secretary, Delhi government, asked all medical directors to provide a written explanation on how the health workers contracted the disease despite wearing protective gear, maintaining safe distancing and taking all precautions.
 

The Delhi government said that medical directors are “indiscriminately” sending such health