As many as eight police officers have been tested positive for Coronavirus on Monday.  The police operator of DCP Zone XI, an assistant police commissioner of Samta Nagar division Zone XII and a sub-inspector attached to the Samta Nagar police station has been tested positive for COVID-19. The wife and two children of the sub-inspector were also tested positive. They are undergoing treatment in different hospitals.

According to the police sources, Apart from the sub inspector’s family and the operator of the DCP Zone XI, his brother, a woman constable, and another PSI from the police station were also tested positive for COVID-19 and have been admitted to the various hospitals and quarantine centres in city. Both sub-inspectors, the police operator, and his brother, a woman constable reside in the Teen Dongri police quarters in Goregaon (West).