1000 Delhi police personnel test COVID positive
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Around 1000 personnel of Delhi police have tested COVID positive.
In a statement, Delhi police have said that around 1000 Delhi police personnel including Public Relation Officers and Additional Commissioner Chinmoy Biswal have tested positive for COVID19.
The present COVID situation in Delhi has become worrisome as COVID positive rate has crossed 23% while 17 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours in the city.
Dr Sandeep Nayar, HOD, Respiratory Diseases, BLK Kapoor Hospital, Delhi, said that COVID cases have been rising for the last eight to nigh days nationally while in Delhi and Mumbai, the cases are rising four to five times more.
“Hopefully, a sharp decline will be there in peak as we saw in South Africa when cases soared suddenly and then declined,” he added.