Mumbai Taj Hotel six employees test positive to coronavirus

Mumbai : At least six employees of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace and Taj Mahal Towers hotel in south Mumbai's Colaba have been tested positive to the coronavirus, a doctor attached to a private hospital said.

Indian Hotels Company (IHC), which runs the Taj Hotel chain, confirmed that some of its employees have tested positive for the contagious virus, but did not specify the number.

The Taj Hotel had been providing living space to the doctors who are treating coronavirus patients in the hospitals and also to those who are in the essential services.

Apart from Taj Palace at Colaba, it also runs Taj Lands End at Bandra, Vivanta President at Cuffe Parade, and Taj Santacruz.

"Six Taj hotel employees are being treated at Bombay Hospital and they have tested positive. They are recovering and are stable now," Dr Gautam Bhansali, consulting physician at Bombay Hospital, told PTI.

Without specifying the number of infected employees, the company said in a statement that most of them were "asymptomatic, showing absolutely no signs of illness" and that the employees were tested proactively.

"However, staff testing positive and symptomatic were duly hospitalized and others who were in contact with them have immediately been put in quarantine," the company statement said.