Health Protection Agency HPA has placed the parliamentary building under monitoring after a staff working for the parliamentary secretariat tested positive for Covid-19.
Speaking to ‘The Press’, Media Director at the Parliament Hassan Ziyau said that the staff that tested positive for Covid-19 worked for the maintenance section. He confirmed that the parliament building is now under monitoring.
Ziyau also said that the parliament secretariat would be informing how the Parliamentary sessions would be conducted in the future.
National Emergency Operations Center NEOC spokesperson Mohamed Mabrook Azeez said that authorities were now disinfecting the parliament building and that contract tracing was currently underway. Mabrook said that once these work are completed the parliament building would be re-opened.
This comes as the government implemented with the second phase of the lockdown ease last Sunday with government offices now open for four days a week and the schools set to reopen in July.
The parliament held sessions amid the lockdown of the Male’ Area and the public had raised concerns after MP seemingly ignored social distancing protocols when they were involved in a scuffle that saw MP for Naifaru Constituency sustain injuries to his spine and ribs.
