Working hours of Railway Mail Service cut to 9 hrs after employee found Covid +ve

Ludhiana: The working of Railway Mail Service department has been affected after a local employee was found positive with Covid-19 soem days back after undergoing throat swab testing, which led the department to change its operating time to just nine hours against 24 hours earlier.
After hearing reports about a positive case in the Railway Mail Service department of the city railway station, the health department of the railways swung into action to trace the contacts of the officials who had come in close contact with the virus infected person during duty hours.
Following this, the health department has taken the sample of 32 officials of the same department and gave directions to them to remain in home quarantine for the next few days until their final reports come. Moreover, the health department has got disinfectants sprayed inside the premises of the Railway Mail Service department to ensure the safety of officials who are working there.
There are 50 officials working in the department of the Railway Mail Service for handling the working.
Meanwhile, sources in the railway department said, “This is the main processing unit for delivering all postal documents to different states through rail transportation service as it acts as a bridge between the district postal department and railway transportation service for delivering documents by post to its final destination”.
“After the local official tested positive, the work of delivery of postal documents has been affected in the past few days as most of staff has been kept in home quarantine, which has led to difficulties in its operation,” they added.
Ramesh Chander, superintendent of sorting department of Railway Mail Service department, said, “After one of employee tested positive a few days ago, the department has changed its operating time. Although, it has not suspended its work of delivering postal documents to different states as we have pitched in more than 15 officials for the same work but the working time of nine hours will be changed only after the reports of rest of the officials come out negative.”