SAIL's 40 employees, including Chairman, test coronavirus positive
New Delhi/IBNS: Around 40 employees of Steel Authority of India (SAIL), including its chairman and a clutch of executive directors, have tested positive for COVID-19, media reports said.
They are reportedly posted in Lodhi Road office of the company in New Delhi.
“Barring two who are to be hospitalised, all others are asymptomatic and are in home quarantine,” a SAIL official told Financial Express.
The state-run steelmaker had kept its Lodhi Road office closed from June 3 only to resume on Monday, June 8, reported the newspaper.
Sources told the newspaper following the spread of the disease, very few employees are reporting to work.
Meanwhile, SAIL announced its Director Atul Srivastava, Director (Personnel) died at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi on June 10 due to cardiac arrest.
"Srivastava, diagnosed *Corona Negative*, was running fever of 101+ for the last few days. Earlier in the day on 10th June, when he was experiencing difficulty in breathing, he was advised admission in the Hospital. Accordingly, he was admitted in the evening on June 10th 2020. He had his dinner and went to sleep," SAIL said in a statement.
"He suffered cardiac arrest late night , and was shifted to Emergency, where despite best efforts of the doctors could not be revived. Shri Srivastava had also undergone *angioplasty* in the past , and was having co-morbidities like heart ailment, diabetes, etc," it said.
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