After an officer at the National Green Tribunal (NGT) tested positive for COVID-19 infection a day before the environmental organisation's New Delhi office was sealed late last night. All staff members who came in touch with the person are asked to self-quarantine for 14 days.

The NGT circular read, ''All high-risk contacts shall be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. The NGT premises shall remain under deep sanitisation and with effect from 23.05.2020, no officer, staff, lawyers, litigants, or the general public shall be permitted to possess access to the NGT (PB) premises.''

As per the circular released by NGT the officer, who tested positive, was posted within the General Administration section (Principal Bench). He had last attended office on May 19. The contact tracing of the person is underway and currently he remains hospitalised.

All necessary protocols are being followed, it had been said.

The deep sanitisation work, to avoid the danger of the further spread of the infection, is going to begin from May 23 and further decision on opening the office will be taken on May 25.

The NGT authority also said that no officer/staff/ lawyers/litigants/public shall be permitted to possess access to the NGT (PB) premises.

Couple of days ago our food minister Ram Vilas Paswan's office and partially his ministry housed in Krishi Bhawan building in Central Delhi is sealed, once a ranking officer within the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying was tested positive for Coronavirus

"Due to at least one recent corona positive case found within the Department of farming and Dairying, it's been decided that the Department of Food and Public Distribution office at Krishi Bhawan shall remain closed on May 19 and should 20 for intensive sanitization," an officer order had reportedly said.

On May 5, one among the floors of the Shastri Bhawan building was sealed after a law ministry official was found infected.

The office block of music label T-Series in Mumbai has been sealed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) after one caretaker tested positive for COVID-19.

According to a T-Series spokesperson, there have been caretakers who would work and occupy the office premises in Andheri, which is now sealed to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Last Monday Zee Media declared that 28 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and its office, newsroom, and studios here are sealed.

"The global pandemic has now become a private story for Zee Media. Last Friday, one among our colleagues tested positive for Covid-19. As a responsible organisation, we initiated mass testing of all those that could are in direct or indirect contact with the said individual," Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor-in-Chief, Zee News said during a statement.