Prior to the budget session of Parliament, Corona's report from more than 400 parliamentary staff members came positive.

Officials told ANI that reports of 402 staff members out of 1,409 staff members of Parliament came positive during January 4 to 8, after which their samples were sent for genome sequencing to confirm the Omicron variant.

According to the internal message of the Parliament staff, the staff is advised to follow the precautionary measures as per the guidelines of the government.

"There is a consolidated list of 200 from the Lok Sabha and 69 from the Rajya Sabha and 133 affiliated staff whose report came out positive, but we all need to exercise due diligence," the message said.

The above list does not include what was tested for Covid outside Parliament premises.

Many employees of both Houses of Parliament were placed in isolation after coming in contact with their infected colleagues during work. Various officials of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are also in isolation.