Senior IAS officer tests positive for Covid-19, hospitalised
Jammu , May 30, 2020 : A senior bureaucrat in Jammu and Kashmir has been tested positive for coronavirus disease Covid-19
.The officer has been hospitalised at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana super-specialty hospital in Kakryal in Reasi district on Sunday morning.
He is holding rank of commissioner secretary.
HT has reported that he 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.
"Top bureaucrats , who were present in a meeting have been either sent to hotel or home quarantines and their samples are being taken. "