VISAKHAPATNAM: More than 150 police personnel in the city and rural areas have been tested positive for Covid-19 in the past few days. But no one has been admitted to hospital.
According to sources, 99% of the police force were vaccinated twice and 70% of the city cops out of 2,700 eligible had taken booster dose. “The third wave is very infectious. The infected are in home isolation with mild symptoms. We have been taking precautions and asked our staff to attend duties with contactless policing,” said city police chief Manish Kumar Sinha.
Collector A Mallikharjuna, GVMC commissioner Lakshmisha, GVMC chief medical officer Sastry and DMHO Tirupati Rao and many officials of various departments have been tested positive. Tourism minister M Srinivasa Rao, deputy CM, and revenue minister Dharmana Krishna Das too tested positive.
More than 1,300 police personnel including 800 city cops out of the 4,000 cops and home guards and more than 500 rural cops out of 3,000 staff in the rural area were tested positive in the first wave.
In the second wave, more than 750 police personnel including 340 of city and above 300 of rural cops were tested positive.
