Quarantine period of doctors, health workers to be treated as 'on duty': Health ministry

In a letter to the chief secretaries of the states and Union territories, directors of all the AIIMS and directors and medical superintendents of central government hospitals dated August 6, Joint Secretary in the health ministry Lav Agarwal has said the quarantine period of doctors and health workers for their duties related to Covid-19 shall be treated as "on duty".