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Delhi Cancer Hospital Closed After Doctor Tests Positive For Coronavirus

The officials have also quarantined the people who came in contact with the infected doctor.

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Delhi Cancer Hospital Closed After Doctor Tests Positive For Coronavirus
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A day after a doctor at a Mohalla clinic in Delhi tested positive for Coronavirus, a government-run hospital in the national capital has been closed after another doctor tested positive for COVID-19.

According to reports, the doctor worked at the Delhi State Cancer Institute, and after he tested positive, the hospital building's OPD, offices and labs have been shut and are being sanitized, NDTV report quoted officials as saying.

The officials have also quarantined the people who came in contact with the infected doctor.

On Tuesday, a doctor posted at a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi's Babarpur has tested positive for coronavirus, with authorities asking patients who visited the clinic at the Janta Mazdoor Colony between March 12 and 20 to self-quarantine at home for 15 days.

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Earlier, a doctor had tested coronavirus positive in the same area.

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