Balasore: The district administration as a preventive measure to contain the spread of COVID-19 has shut the Office of the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Balasore Wildlife Division at Kuruda in Balasore district for two days as one of its employees has tested positive for COVID-19.
The office will remain shut on July 15 and 16.
An Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) working in the aforementioned office has tested positive for COVID-19.
Similarly, two more employees of the Regional Transport Office (RTO) have tested positive for COVID-19, the Regional Transport Officer has informed.
As many as 61 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the district today taking the cumulative total of positives in the district to 615.