Bihar: 52 CRPF men test positive for Covid-19

PATNA: At least 52 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel stationed at the Bihar sector headquarters of the paramilitary force on Ashiana-Digha Road in the city have so far tested positive for Covid-19.
Bihar sector commandant (operations) MK Singh, who is also the public relations officer, told TOI that four more personnel tested positive on Wednesday. “Till Tuesday, the figure of positive personnel from the sector headquarters was 48,” he said.
Singh said that out of 48, 45 were have been kept in a Covid-19 care centre run by the district administration near Kangan Ghat in Patna City, while three more were sent to the Patliputra Sports Complex in Kankarbagh. “All three are symptomatic due to which they have been sent to the sports complex where the district administration is keeping others patients also,” he said adding that all 45 at Kangan Ghat are asymptomatic.
Commandant Singh said the four fresh cases will be sent to an isolation centre at CRPF’s composite hospital in Muzaffarpur on Thursday which also has a Covid-19 care cell.
He said that there are quarantine centres at group centres in Mokama and other places having battalion headquarters of para-military forces.
“Several others had undergone the antigen test even on Wednesday whose results are expected to come by Thursday,” he said adding, “Utmost precaution is being taken inside the sector headquarters after so many jawans tested positive.”