Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited announced that media report “Corona Virus has infected 14 members from Steel Plant during the last 24 hours” is incorrect and far from truth. In fact there is no official press release from RINL in this regard and neither any of reporter has confirmed the same from the Corporate Communications department officials in this matter. It is pointed out that these kind of unconfirmed reports & social media inputs from unauthorized personnel create misconceptions among employees and people at large and bring bad reputation to RINL and also to the credibility of newspapers & TV channels.
RINL has reported its first corona virus positive employee case on 28-06-2020. An executive from SMS department came from Rajasthan who has held up at his native place during lockdown tested positive during his second corona test. Later few cases surfaced in Ukkunagram including dependents of the employees.
So far in township only 6 cases are reported and as on date only 5 cases are active and all these 5 patients are undergoing treatment at government Covid hospitals in the city. In fact the first corona positive patient was discharged from hospital.
In our outstation offices, 4 employees are tested positive. Besides above, two dependents of employees residing in Visakhapatnam city are also tested positive. One dependent i.e spouse of an employee was died due to co-morbid condition Diabetes Mellitus.
RINL-VSP is taking all necessary measures to contain the spread of virus among residents of township. All the places in the township where active cases are identified are being sanitized. The relevant clusters in township apartment are barricaded to restrict the traffic in these areas.