CISF man tests +ve after reaching home in Bundi

Kota: A 55-year-old man posted as assistant sub-inspector in Central Industrial Security Force in New Delhi tested positive for Covid-19 after reaching his village in Bundi district on Wednesday. His sample was collected in New Delhi before he left for Bundi.
The CISF personnel’s doctor son also travelled with him to their hometown. The CISF official, following the +ve test report on Wednesday, was referred to New Medical College Hospital in Kota for Covid-19 treatment, while his son, daughter-in-law and cook at his house in Kawar village of Bundi district were put in isolation of the hospital, said chief medical and health officer, Bundi, Dr Gokul Meena.
According to his son, the CISF personnel was home quarantined and was undergoing treatment for diarrhea.
Other persons who are supposed to have come in his contact in the village after his arrival from New Delhi were also home quarantined and their sampling for Covid-19 test is underway, the CMHO said. The CISF official was on duty at airport and other places in New Delhi and his contact history is being traced, he added.
The sample of CISF personnel was collected in New Delhi so the case would be counted in Delhi’s tally and the total number of Covid-19 +ve cases stands at 2 in Bundi district, the CMHO said. “Zero mobility and Section 144 has been enforced in Kawar village,” SDM, Nainwa Shyoram said. The medical staff at community health centre has also been home quarantined, he added.