Covid-19: Five held for assault on doctors and Asha workers, test positive in Bengaluru
Bengaluru/UNI: Five people among those arrested for the violence against doctors and Asha workers in Padarayanapura last Sunday have tested positive for the dreaded Coronavirus, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said on Friday.
All the infected individuals have been shifted to a hospital from jail, Dr Narayan said.
A total of 126 people had been arrested in connection with the alleged attack on health workers and police and all of them were lodged in the district jail in the nearby Ramanagara after being remanded to judicial custody by court.
"We had tested all the inmates. During screening, five of them were tested positive for COVID-19. All the five have been shifted to the hospital," the Deputy Chief Minister told reporters here.
Two of the remanded prisoners tested positive late on Thursday and three more on Friday, he added.
Health workers had gone to Padarayanapura for quarantining some people who were the primary and secondary contacts of Coronavirus patients from the area when they were allegedly thrashed by a violent crowd.
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