Maha: Civic building shut as doctor tests COVID-19 positive
May 27, 2020, 16:35 IST
Thane, May 27 ()The Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation's administrative building in Thane district was closed on Wednesday, after a 40-year-old doctor from the health department tested positive for COVID-19, an official said.
In a release issued on Wednesday, the KDMC's public relations officer Madhuri Phophale said the building would be sanitised as a doctor working with the health department in the premises had contracted the deadly infection.
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The civic authority has already started tracing all high-risk contacts of the infected doctor, she said.
Meanwhile the Indian Medical Association's Thane chapter has expressed serious concerns over 10 doctors testing positive for COVID-19 in the city on Tuesday.
IMA Thane's president Dr Dinkar Desai the 10 infected doctors were all general physicians and were undergoing treatment. COR ARU ARU(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)