57 civil service officer trainees test COVID positive; academy sealed

India: As many as 57 trainees at Mussoorie’s Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration have been tested coronavirus positive, following which the academy has been sealed. According to a statement by Academy Director Sanjeev Chopra, the academy in Uttarakhand has been sealed for two days, while hostels, mess, administrative office and the library are being sanitized. This comes a day after the Uttarakhand government had postponed the reopening of the colleges amid rising cases of COVID-19.