As many as 402 Parliament staff have tested positive for COVID-19, news agency ANI reported on January 9, quoting officials.
The report said that out of 1,409 members, 402 staff tested positive for COVID between January 4 and 8, and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to confirm the variant.
This comes ahead of the Budget Session that usually begins in the last week of January.
Moneycontrol could not independently verify the report.
