News: Indian Olympic Association to ask staff to work from home amid COVID-19 outbreak

The staffers at the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will be asked to 'work from home' from the next week with the sports body set to suspend the majority of its operations from its headquarters in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The virus outbreak has already forced the Indian cricket board (BCCI) to temporarily shut its headquarters in Mumbai. The board has asked its employees to work from home. In India, the number of people infected by the highly contagious novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has risen to 169 with three deaths reported in the country so far. The IOA member also said some of the staff in the finance department will have to come to the office in between since March is a financial year-end month.