Two A’bad-return SRP jawans test positive in Bharuch

Surat: Two State Reserve Police (SRP) jawans, who returned from their duty in Ahmedabad to Bharuch have tested positive for Covid-19. With this, the total active cases in Bharuch district has reached to three on Monday.
Health officials said that Ashok Patel, 37, and Priyavadan Vasava, 40—SRP Jawans from Roopnagar SRP camp in Bharuch’s Valia taluka—returned from duty in Ahmedabad on May 1 and were under home quarantine in the SRP campus.
However, the SRP jawans developed symptoms of the virus on Sunday. The samples of both the jawans were collected, which turned out to be positive.
Dr Nilesh Patel, Epidemic Medical Officer (EMO), Bharuch told TOI, “A total of 44 SRP jawans who returned from Ahmedabad are under home quarantine in the SRP camp at Valia. However, we took samples of five SRP jawans, out of which two tested positive on Monday.”
Both jawans have been shifted in the Jayaben Modi Covid-19 hospital in Ankleshwar.
On May 9, an 18-year-old boy, who returned from Surat, had tested positive for Covid-19 in Bharuch.
Meanwhile, the district administration has declared seven villages in Valia and Jhagadia taluka—located in the vicinity of the SRP camp—as containment zones and the movement of people has been restricted.