New Delhi: Around 25 Members of Parliament (MPs) and around 40 people working in the Parliament have tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, government sources said.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) carried out testing of more than 2.500 samples of MPs and other officials and Parliament's staff over the weekend.
According to officials in the Union Health Ministry, all the MPs and employees at the secretariats of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were made to undergo covid-19 tests before the much-awaited monsoon session of the Parliament began.“A team from ICMR was in the parliament for supervision.