New Delhi: Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar tested positive for COVID-19, and is in self quarantine, reports said.
Kumar became the first top bureacrat to test positive for the virus.
According to the reports, Kumar got himself tested for Covid-19 after developing mild fever.
According to some section of media, the source of the infection has not yet been established.
Meanwhile, the officials have sanitized the first-floor section of the South Block in which the defence secretary has the office.
Contact tracing and all other covid-19 protocol are being followed , reports said.