SENIOR IAS OFFICER TESTS +VE

JAMMU: A senior officer in Jammu and Kashmir tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. The officer has been hospitalised at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana super-specialty hospital in Kakryal in Reasi district.

The IAS officer, who came back from Srinagar on Saturday, had attended a high-level meeting in Jammu that was chaired by a top bureaucrat, a financial commissioner, a principal secretary, a senior bureaucrat in the disaster management authority and officials from health and medical education department, said a top bureaucrat on the condition of anonymity.

The top bureaucrats have been either sent to hotel or home quarantines and their samples are being taken, he added.