PRAYAGRAJ: As many as 28 policemen, including 24 from PAC battalion and four at reserve police lines, have tested positive for Covid-19 infection on Magh Mela campus in Prayagraj.
With this, a total of 39 policemen have tested positive for the deadly infection, so far.
All the 28 policemen, who tested positive on Wednesday, have been shifted to Covid-19 Level One hospital at Kotwa Bani for treatment.
Additional chief medical officer and nodal officer Dr Rishi Sahai said the samples of over 300 policemen were collected on Tuesday through RT-PCR after they complained of mild symptoms.
Dr Sahai further added that health teams have collected a total of 11,500 samples for testing since January 1 and 41 of them, including 39 policemen and two visitors have tested positive for Covid infection so far.
Till now, over 2,500 policemen have arrived at mela campus from different parts of the state.
With barely 24 hours left for the Magh mela in which lakhs of pilgrims will be taking holy dip on the occasion of Makar Sankranti on January 14, as many as 14 health teams have started thermal screening of visitors at entry points.
Over a dozen teams have also been engaged to collect samples from camps of seers, saints, kalpwasi and government offices.
Mela police authorities , however, maintained that all the preventive measures have been initiated and wearing of masks has been made mandatory for all the policemen on reserve police line and mela campus, government office, mela police stations and police outposts.
Sanitization exercise has also been carried out on reserve police lines and others adjoining campus.
With this, a total of 39 policemen have tested positive for the deadly infection, so far.
All the 28 policemen, who tested positive on Wednesday, have been shifted to Covid-19 Level One hospital at Kotwa Bani for treatment.
Additional chief medical officer and nodal officer Dr Rishi Sahai said the samples of over 300 policemen were collected on Tuesday through RT-PCR after they complained of mild symptoms.
Dr Sahai further added that health teams have collected a total of 11,500 samples for testing since January 1 and 41 of them, including 39 policemen and two visitors have tested positive for Covid infection so far.
Till now, over 2,500 policemen have arrived at mela campus from different parts of the state.
With barely 24 hours left for the Magh mela in which lakhs of pilgrims will be taking holy dip on the occasion of Makar Sankranti on January 14, as many as 14 health teams have started thermal screening of visitors at entry points.
Over a dozen teams have also been engaged to collect samples from camps of seers, saints, kalpwasi and government offices.
Mela police authorities , however, maintained that all the preventive measures have been initiated and wearing of masks has been made mandatory for all the policemen on reserve police line and mela campus, government office, mela police stations and police outposts.
Sanitization exercise has also been carried out on reserve police lines and others adjoining campus.
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