8 security men, including SP attached with Former CM Prakash Badal tested COVID positive
Punjab: Eight security men, including an SP, attached with former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. His residence has been declared a micro-containment zone.
Dr Manju, a senior medical officer (SMO), Civil Hospital, Badal, said, “The number of corona positive patients from the former CM’s residence has crossed the mark of five, thus we are declaring it micro-containment zone. No outsider will now be allowed to go and meet anyone. Similarly, those remaining inside will be isolated there.”
“Two security men were earlier tested positive for COVID-19 and since then we are taking the samples of everyone residing or deployed there. The samples of nearly 120 people have been already collected and the remaining people, including the members of the Badal family, too will be covered soon,” she added. She also said that the former CM due to his old age was already advised home isolation.
Meanwhile, according to the sources, SP (Security), was presently admitted to a private hospital in Mohali. They added that earlier two commandos of the CISF tested positive and today five more security men were tested positive.
Besides, some residents of Badal village, including two employees of a bank, to have been tested COVID positive. Dr. HN Singh, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Muktsar, said, “The norms of micro containment zone will be followed at the former CM’s residence.”
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Notably, former CM Parkash Singh Badal, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal are presently residing at Badal village. Though Parkash Badal has mostly remained indoors during the ongoing COVID pandemic, Sukhbir and Harsimrat have travelled and held some meetings as well.
-PTC News
