The spurt in the contagion of Covid-19 in provisional state capital Dehradun has started taking its toll on the functioning of the state government. On Wednesday seven employees working in the head office of National Health Mission (NHM) were found positive.
After this office was made out of bounds for outsiders and all public dealing here was closed till August 23. The NHM office is located on the third floor of the building of the state health directorate. It is located on the same floor where the state control room for the Covid-19 is situated. On Friday an officer of the health department and his wife were found positive for Covid-19. The Panchayati Raj directorate too would remain closed on Saturday after the husband of an employee of Uttarakhand Rural Road development authority was found positive for the disease.
The office of this authority is located in the building of the Panchayati Raj department. The secretary and director of Panchayati Raj, H C Semwal said that on Saturday and Sunday the entire building would be sanitised. Earlier this month, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun too had to be closed to the public twice for a few days after positive cases were detected among its officials.