Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jun 30: A police personnel attached to Mangaluru rural police station has tested coronavirus positive. He was working in Ullal police station in the past.
It is gathered that an accused had contracted coronavirus infection when this person was working at Ullal station and the said man had come in contact with the accused. Therefore it is felt that the infection would have been passed on to him from the said person.
He stands admitted to a private hospital.
The rural police station here is located at Vamanjoor in the city outskirts. Already ten persons attached to Ullal police station have suffered from this infection.
Infection to prisoner
An inmate of the central prison in the city has tested positive for COVID-19. The prisoner in question was suffering from psychological disorders. He was being treated in the district Wenlock Hospital. There is suspicion that he would have got the infection from the hospital staff.
As a precautionary measure, police personnel who was accompanying the prisoner has been quarantined.