PTI .The hotel has been closed for 48 hours during which it will be fully sanitised and its entire staff will be tested for COVID-19, she said.People who may have come in contact with the employees of the hotel are also being traced, the SDM said.Twenty-three of the hotel's employees have tested positive for the disease over the last 10 days, health department sources said.Twenty-seven fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported on Thursday from Muni-ki-Reti area in Tehri district which include 16 from Taj Rishikesh Resort and Spa, eight tourists and three employees of an ashram.Lying low for a few months, the COVID cases in Uttarakhand are showing a rising trend of late.Twenty-two tourists from Gujarat who had come in a bus on a 15-day tour of.