Nagpur: 12 cops test Covid-19 positive after returning from training in Pune

NAGPUR: Around 12 cops, including a woman, deployed at different police stations in Nagpur city tested Covid-19 positive after returning from Pune where they had gone to attend a training between August 30 and September 9 this month.
It's learnt around 33 cops had gone to attend a training at Maharashtra intelligence academy (MIA) as a part of their refresher course module.
After returning from the training, many cops had started developing symptoms following which the top brass had suggested them to go for testing.
Nagpur police are now coordinating with the health department of the Nagpur municipal corporation to shift the cops to different institutional quarantine centres. Contact tracing of the affected cops too have started on a war-footing.
City police chief Amitesh Kumar, Joint CP Aswati Dorje and DCP (Headquarters) Sandeep Pakhale are closely monitoring the precautionary measures.
More testing are underway at Police hospital at Takli under supervision of chief medical officer Dr Sandip Shinde.