5 cops, VB official contract the virus

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Ludhiana: Five Ludhiana Police personnel and a Vigilance Bureau officer tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday.
The five cops include a 26-year-old woman sub-inspector, who belongs to a village in Machhiwara. She has been shifted to Meritorious School in Ludhiana and is asymptomatic. Her contacts and family, including parents, brother and sister, have been quarantined and their samples collected, said Machhiwara zone SMO Dr Jaspreet Kaur.
A woman constable, who is posted at the same station as the sub-inspector, has been home isolated as she is asymptomatic.
The third positive case is a 53-year-old ASI, who had high fever and cough for the past two days. “He has BP and heart problem, too. As he was at his home in Hoshiarpur, he has been quarantined at civil hospital there,” said an official.
A police station munshi, 32, who belongs to Dehlon, too, is asymptomatic. He will be home quarantined.
An ASI, 49, posted with Ludhiana PCR, too, has caught the virus. He was on medical leave as he had fever. As he was at his house in Jalandhar, he would be shifted to civil hospital there.
The 49-year-old VB officer belongs to Samrala town.
Samrala senior medical officer (SMO) Dr Tarikjot Singh said, “His sample was taken at Police Lines. His positive report came on Sunday. He is asymptomatic. We have home quarantined three members of his family. Besides, his milkman, ration shop owner and his employee, too, have been quarantined.”
He would shuttle between Ludhiana and Samrala on his motorcycle and wouldn’t go home daily.