CRPF headquarters sealed after driver tests positive for COVID-19
New Delhi/IBNS: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)'s headquarters in Delhi has been sealed for sanitisation after a driver working in the building got infected with Coronavirus.
No one will be allowed to enter the building in the national capital's Lodhi Road area till further orders, said the officials.
On Saturday, the CRPF informed that 122 jawans of a battalion in the city have tested positive for the virus in two weeks.
The jawans who tested positive are being treated at a facility in the capital's Mandawali.
Delhi has recorded the third-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
The capital city registered the biggest spike in the number of cases on Saturday with 384 new infections, taking the total to 4,122.
India too on Saturday reported the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases so far with 2,644 new infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 39,980.
Another 83 people died -- also the highest - taking the number of fatalities to 1,301, the Union Health Ministry stated.
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