Independent TV journo tests coronavirus positive

A journalist of private television channel Independent has tested positive for coronavirus. Then, 47 employees of the television have been put under home-quarantine.

Authority of the TV channel revealed the news in a press release on Friday.

It says, “This is to inform everyone that one of our colleagues in Independent Television has tested positive for COVID 19. He’s in institutional quarantine now and recovering fast.”

“They have also identified people having close contact with the patient. They’ve been sent on home-quarantine. My colleague who has tested positive attended office on March 26 last,” it read.

“The employee who was diagnosed with coronavirus was given leave on March 26 after he caught fever,” according to the press release.

He tested positive two days ago after he contacted the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), it said.


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