Air India headquarters closed as one tests corona positive

NEW DELHI: National carrier Air India on Tuesday shut its national capital-based headquarters, Airlines House, after an employee was tested Covid-19 positive. Accordingly, the building will be shut for two days for sanitisation work.

Under the safety protocols, work places of those employees who have tested positive required to be shut and sanitised to prevent the spread of the virus. The test report of the employee had come out last night.

"One of the employees attending office at Airlines House has tested positive for covid 19," the airline said in a statement. "As Air India accords top priority to safety and wellbeing of its employees, the building will be closed for two days for sanitisation, adhering to protocol. All support is being extended to the employee concerned". In an unrelated development, five pilots of the airline, who had earlier tested positive for coronavirus, have now tested negative for the infection. (IANS) 

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