Nearly 100 people at the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex have been quarantined after a sanitation worker there tested positive for coronavirus, sources said.
The person was tested positive four days ago.
While the secretary-level officials and their families were asked to be under home quarantine, workers were taken to a quaratine facility in central Delhi, sources said.
Apart from the sanitation workers, all the others have tested negative.
Coronavirus cases in India crossed the 18,000 mark this morning with 18,601 cases, including 590 deaths. The country recorded the biggest jump in the number of deaths in a day with 47 patients dying in the last 24 hours.
With over 2,000 cases, Delhi has the second-highest numbers in the country after Maharashtra.
