Bengaluru: Covid-19 has hit the Vikasa Soudha, the nerve centre of the state administration. A woman employee in one of the departments functioning in the Vikasa Soudha tested positive for Covid-19, causing several departments to be sealed down.

The public has now been banned from entering the Vikasa Soudha.

According to sources, a woman employee of the Food and Civil Supplies Department tested positive for Covid 19 recently. She is now being treated at Victoria hospital. As per the government’s guidelines, several departments where she and her contacts visited, have now been shut down.

It can be recalled that in May, the BBMP office was also sealed down after a JD(S) corporator tested positive for the disease.