The coronavirus cases in India continue to rise and recently four contacts of ACP Anil Kumar Kohli testing positive sent the police department in a tizzy on Friday, prompting it to place the entire staff of Basti Jodhewal police station under home quarantine.’
Among the four patients are three cops, Basti Jodhewal SHO sub-inspector Arshpreet Kaur, her driver ASI Sukhdev Singh and ACP Kohli’s driver constable Prabhjot Singh.
According to media reports, residents of the police flats near Sarabha Nagar police station were left distressed after SI Arshpreet, who lives there, tested positive. Disinfection was promptly carried out at the flats, while the Basti Jodhewal station was sanitised twice.
The SI has no travel history, but she was deputed at the vegetable market, along with ACP Kohli and other cops. She was also part of the team tracing Tablighi Jamaat members, who had attended the Markaz event in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area.
Whereas, District mandi officer (DMO) Jasbir Kaur, the fifth confirmed patient on Friday, had attended many meetings with ACP Kohli, besides others with deputy commissioner Pardeep Agrawal, commissioner of police Rakesh Agrawal and cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu.
Panic gripped commission agents at the vegetable and grain markets of the city as they had been conducting meetings with DMO Jasbir Kaur for issuance of wheat procurement coupons for farmers and making other arrangements at the markets.
President of the Sabzi Mandi Ahrtiya Association, Gurkamal Singh, said several agents and other workers left the markets as soon as the DMO’s news spread. He said thermal scanning should start at the entry point of the market and the area should be properly disinfected.
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