Hotel In Uttarakhand's Rishikesh Closed For 48 Hrs After 16 Employees Test Positive For Covid-19

<p><strong>Dehradun:</strong> A leading hotel in Rishikesh has been closed for 48 hours as a precautionary measure after 16 of its employees tested positive for Covid-19 in a day, an official said on Friday.</p> <p>Sixteen employees of Taj Rishikesh Resort and Spa tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, Narendra Nagar SDM Yukta Mishra said.</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ | <span style="color: #e03e2d;"><a style="color: #e03e2d;" href="https://ift.tt/2PewtX5 Pradesh Government Sets Record In Number Of Digital Payments In India</a></span></strong></p> <p>The hotel has been closed for 48 hours during which it will be fully sanitised and its entire staff will be tested for Covid-19, she said.</p> <p>People who may have come in contact with the employees of the hotel are also being traced, the SDM said.</p> <p>Twenty-three of the hotel's employees have tested positive for the disease over the last 10 days, health department sources said.</p> <p>Twenty-seven fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported on Thursday from Muni-ki-Reti area in Tehri district which include 16 from Taj Rishikesh Resort and Spa, eight tourists and three employees of an ashram.</p> <p>Twenty-two tourists from Gujarat who had come in a bus on a 15-day tour of north India via Pushkar, Jaipur, Udaipur, Mathura and Haridwar had tested positive for the virus on March 23.</p> <p>Rising cases of coronavirus at a time when Haridwar prepares for Kumbh which sees a huge gathering of devotees is a cause of concern for the state government.</p> <p>The Uttarakhand dispensation has made it mandatory for devotees to bring a negative RT-PCR report not older than 72 hours or a coronavirus vaccination certificate with them.</p> <p>Kumbh Mela is scheduled to begin on April 1.</p>

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