Sole BEST staffer to test positive dies

Somit Sen | TNN | Updated: Apr 16, 2020, 08:40 IST

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MUMBAI: The only BEST employee to test positive for coronavirus died at a private hospital in Tilak Nagar late on Tuesday. The 53-year-old was a foreman with the electricity supply division and had diabetes and kidney-related ailments, said BEST’s chief medical officer Dr Anil Kumar Singhal. The man was on a ventilator. His family was tested for the virus too; their reports were negative.
Dr Singhal issued a circular directing BEST staffers with diabetes, heart problems, kidney dialysis, asthma and cancer as well as pregnant women employees to not report for duty in both the power and transport divisions due to the Covid-19 threat.