New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Wednesday sealed its Accounts department and commercial department at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Place after four of its staff tested Covid-19 positive.

Fourteen others staff who had come in their contact, are also suspected to have infected with Coronavirus, a senior NDMC official said, adding that contact tracing is being done to identify persons came in contact of them.

According to an order issued by director (coordination) Virender Singh on Wednesday, who is nodal officer for Covid-19, directions are issued with the approval of competent authority in NDMC to seal account department and commercial department at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Place.

The employees working in the accounts department (6th floor) Palika Kendra and commercial department at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Place are directed to work from home during this period, according to the order.

The civic body has also approached the district authorities to carry out contact tracing as per standard operating procedure.

“Staff members, who had come in contact of affected persons, have been directed to observe home quarantine and to report to district authority in case they develop any symptoms.

Public health and civil department have been instructed to carry out extensive sanitization drive for three times daily to disinfect the building and surrounding areas, it said.

The order came after a letter written by Sukesh Aggarwal, AAO of ‘Computer Billing Section’ (CBS) informing NDMC authorities about cases. “One of our staff (peon) in computer billing section tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. He visited Ayushman Hospital, Dwarka with fever where he was tested positive and later shifted to Najafgarh quarantine Centre. He attended office last on Friday and many other staff came in his contact,” the letter stated.

A senior assistant of accounts branch has also tested positive for Covid-19, it said.

The other staffs of billing section have also informed that they have also developed symptoms and not feeling well,” it stated, adding that some of them advised to rest after they informed that their family members have also shown similar symptoms.

However, other staff of computer billing section continue attending offices but scared of getting infected themselves by working in such circumstances, it said.

With this, the number of staff infected with life- threatening Coronavirus has reached to seven till now. Earlier, this month one sanitation worker and an engineer of the civic body had tested positive for Covid-19.

Last week, the NDMC had sealed a dispensary at Palika Kendra after an allopathic doctor tested positive for Covid-19.

A senior NDMC official said that the dispensary was sealed but now it is opened for public.

Twenty other staff including doctors and other medical staff deputed at the dispensary was placed under home-quarantine and they all tested negative.