indiaUpdated: May 31, 2020 10:57 ISTA senior officer in Jammu and Kashmir tested positive for coronavirus disease Covid-19 on Saturday. This comes a few days after the wife and son of an advisor to the Lieutenant Governor contracted Covid-19. The officer has been hospitalised at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana super-specialty hospital in Kakryal in Reasi district on Sunday morning. “Other senior officials include a divisional commissioner, heads of health and medical education department, principal of GMC Jammu, directors of national health mission, health services, medical supplies corporation, microbiologist and epidemiologist,” said the official. A senior doctor said, “The senior IAS officer, who had given his sample for Covid-19 test, should not have attended the meeting.

Source: Hindustan Times May 31, 2020 05:27 UTC