Police barracks in Ctg locked down after traffic cop tests positive for Covid-19
A police barracks in Chattogram's Dampara area was locked down early today after a traffic constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police tested positive for coronavirus in the port city yesterday.
The 55-year-old constable of CMP Traffic (North) Division was running a fever and was feeling nauseous from several days back. His samples were collected on Saturday and tested at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID), and the result came back positive for Covid-19, said Deputy Commissioner (DC) of CMP Headquarters Amir Jafar quoting the BITID report.
"The traffic constable was shifted to the Isolation Ward at Chattogram General Hospital after he was initially admitted at Divisional Police Hospital in Dampara of the port city for treatment," Abu Bakkar Siddique, additional deputy commissioner (public relations) of CMP informed this to journalists in a WhatsApp message early on Monday.
"15 other policemen who lived in the same dormitory as him have also been placed in isolation, some at the hospital while others inside the barracks in Dampara," DC Jafar said.
Shortly after midnight on Monday, CMP locked down the traffic (north) barracks in the city's Dampara area and sent 225 persons, including one doctor, three nurses, three medical assistants and 200 residents of Traffic (north) barrack, to quarantine after the traffic constable tested positive for Covid-19, ADC Abu Bakkar Siddique.
BITID yesterday reported six new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, including the traffic policeman and four other persons from the port city and one from Laxmipur district, said Dr Hasan Shahriar Kabir, Chattogram divisional director of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
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