NEW DELHI: Officials in the Indian foreign ministry have been asked to self-quarantine after two people tested positive for coronavirus, a person familiar with the matter said.
However, the number of officials asked to self-quarantine is not known. These are the first two known cases of the deadly disease in the foreign ministry.
The self quarantining is only a precautionary step, the person cited above said. One of the people who tested positive was a consultant in the ministry's Central Europe division in New Delhi, while the other was as a legal officer in the law division, news agency Reuters reported late on Friday.