The employees were found infected after the agency carried out section-wise testing at its headquarters in the wake of some COVID-19 cases being reported from other floors of the Lok Nayak Bhawan in Khan Market, where the ED office is located, the officials said on Saturday.

For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here All the ED employees who were found infected with COVID-19 after proactive testing are asymptomatic, they said.

According to the officials, the employees who have tested positive include a special director rank officer and an investigating officer.

All of them have been admitted to isolation facilities for treatment.

People who came in contact with them have been quarantined, they added.

The affected employees have not been coming to the office since they tested positive, they said.

In order to check the spread of COVID-19, a protocol has been put in place for sanitising the ED headquarters twice a week and all documents.

Daak (post) is sanitised before it is handed over to officers and other staff of the agency, they added.

Coronavirus India update: State-wise total number of confirmed cases, deaths on June 6 Last month, too, an ED employee had tested positive for COVID-19.

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