VADODARA: As many as 27 employees of the income tax department in Vadodara have tested positive for coronavirus infection in the past 10 days.
The infected employees have been put under quarantine and some portions of the department's office premises have been sanitised.
“Most of the employees infected with Covid-19 are from the jurisdictional range of the income tax department. It is located on the first floor of the building and is frequented by citizens,” said Ganesh Joshi, secretary, Income Tax Employees Federation.
Joshi said that the first floor was sanitized some days ago.
“Some senior officials, including from the investigation wing too were tested positive for Covid-19,” Joshi told TOI.