Air India on Tuesday sealed its headquarters in Delhi after one of its employees tested positive for novel coronavirus. The Airline House will remain shut for two days for sanitation work.
"As Air India accords top priority to safety and wellbeing of its employees, the building will be closed for two days for sanitisation, adhering to protocol. All support is being extended to the employee concerned,” the national carrier said in a statement.
The test result of the employee came on Monday evening. The airline further informed that everyone, including its chairman and managing director Pradeep Singh Kharola, will work from home.
Meanwhile, five Air India pilots, who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19, have now tested negative. They had tested positive when 77 pilots of the airline were tested on a priority basis on Saturday.
Reports said these pilots operated Boeing 787 Dreamliners aircraft, and were tested to be deployed for duty under the Vande Bharat Mission to bring back Indians stranded abroad. It is believed that the batch of RT-PCR kits they were tested with may have been problematic.
Air India has been engaged in one of the biggest evacuation missions in the world since May 7 with as many as 64 of its flights being deployed to bring back over 14,000 people stranded in 12 countries.
